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, Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah -
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all the sons of Ishmael. Their settlements and encampments were named after them. Twelve princes with their twelve tribes.
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Ishmael lived 137 years. When he breathed his last and died he was buried with his family.
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His children settled down all the way from Havilah near Egypt eastward to Shur in the direction of Assyria. The Ishmaelites didn't get along with any of their kin. Jacob and Rachel
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This is the family tree of Isaac son of Abraham: Abraham had Isaac.
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Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan Aram. She was the sister of Laban the Aramean.
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Isaac prayed hard to God for his wife because she was barren. God answered his prayer and Rebekah became pregnant.
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But the children tumbled and kicked inside her so much that she said, "If this is the way it's going to be, why go on living?" She went to God to find out what was going on.
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God told her, Two nations are in your womb, two peoples butting heads while still in your body. One people will overpower the other, and the older will serve the younger.
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When her time to give birth came, sure enough, there were twins in her womb.
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The first came out reddish, as if snugly wrapped in a hairy blanket; they named him Esau (Hairy).