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Ishmael

Son of Abraham and Hagar and ancestor of Ishmaelite peoples.

son of Abraham and Hagar6 Bible books14 chapters44 verse appearances

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Son of by , born before and circumcised with his father's household at the age of thirteen. He is sent away with his mother after sees him mocking at Isaac's weaning feast, and he grows up in the wilderness of , becoming an archer; his mother takes him an wife. Genesis records his twelve sons as princes of their tribes, and he returns with Isaac to bury Abraham at the cave of . His descendants are remembered as the of the desert frontier.

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