Genesis
17
- When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the
LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty; walk before me and
be blameless.
- I will confirm my covenant between me and
you and will greatly increase your numbers."
- Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
- "As for me, this is my covenant with
you: You will be the father of many nations.
- No longer will you be called Abram; your
name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
- I will make you very fruitful; I will make
nations of you, and kings will come from you.
- I will establish my covenant as an everlasting
covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations
to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- The whole land of Canaan, where you are
now an alien, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants
after you; and I will be their God."
- Then God said to Abraham, "As for you,
you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations
to come.
- This is my covenant with you and your descendants
after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
- You are to undergo circumcision, and it
will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
- For the generations to come every male among
you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your
household or bought with money from a foreigner--those who are not your offspring.
- Whether born in your household or bought
with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to
be an everlasting covenant.
- Any uncircumcised male, who has not been
circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my
covenant."
- God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai
your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
- I will bless her and will surely give you
a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations;
kings of peoples will come from her."
- Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said
to himself, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old ?
Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety ?"
- And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael
might live under your blessing !"
- Then God said, "Yes, but your wife
Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my
covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
- And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I
will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase
his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into
a great nation.
- But my covenant I will establish with Isaac,
whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year."
- When he had finished speaking with Abraham,
God went up from him.
- On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael
and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in
his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.
- Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he
was circumcised,
- and his son Ishmael was thirteen;
- Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised
on that same day.
- And every male in Abraham's household, including
those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with
him.
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