As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father twelve tribal leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.
So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased #– #every male among the members of Abraham’s household #– #and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.
These were the places assigned to Aaron’s descendants from the Kohathite family for their settlements in their territory, because the first lot was for them.