(1) Apparently the only nations descended from Sarah and Abraham were the Hebrews, the Ishmaelites , the Midianites, and the Edomites.(2) They sold their brother to the Ishmaelites for eight ounces of silver.(3) Intriguingly, the Talmud mentions no Ishmaelite or Keturite reaction in Alexander's court - not even a request for time to formulate a response.(4) Ask the Ishmaelites and the Chaldeans if they'd like to have 13 million descendants walking around instead of nobody.(5) Meanwhile, Joseph is taken by a caravan of Ishmaelites to Egypt, where he becomes a slave in the household of a nobleman named Potiphar.
