Gen 17:20, 23 | ESV | STEP | As for Ishmael , I have heard you; behold , I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly . He shall father twelve princes , and I will make him into a great nation .

Genesis 17:20

20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and ^amultiply him greatly. He ^bshall father twelve princes, and ^cI will make him into a great nation.

Genesis 17:23

23 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those 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.