¹⁸ Avraham said to God, “If only Yishma‘el could live in your presence!”

¹⁹ God answered, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you are to call him Yitz’chak [laughter]. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

²⁰ But as for Yishma‘el, I have heard you. I have blessed him. I will make him fruitful and give him many descendants. He will father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

²¹ But I will establish my covenant with Yitz’chak, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”