Genesis 25:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments, twelve princes according to their tribes.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages and by their encampments (sheepfolds)–twelve princes according to their tribes. [Foretold in Gen. 17:20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

these are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their villages, and by their encampments; twelve princes according to their nations.

Common English Bible

These are Ishmael’s sons. These are their names by their villages and their settlements: twelve tribal leaders according to their tribes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

These are the sons of Ishmael. And these are their names throughout their fortresses and towns: the twelve princes of their tribes.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

These are the sons of Ismael: and these are their names by their castles and towns, twelve princes of their tribes.

Genesis 25:16 Cross References

Genesis 17:20

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; I will bless him and make him fruitful and exceedingly numerous; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 17:23

Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.

Genesis 25:15

Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

1 Chronicles 6:54

These are their dwelling places according to their settlements within their territories: to the sons of Aaron of the families of Kohathites—for the lot fell to them first—

Numbers 31:10

All their towns where they had settled, and all their encampments, they burned,