Genesis 17

Genesis 17:1-27

[1]And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty ·God walk before my face, and be perfect.

[2]And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.

[3]And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,

[4]It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

[5]And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

[6]And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

[7]And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

[8]And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them.

[9]And God said to Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations.

[10]This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee--that every male among you be circumcised.

[11]And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and that shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

[12]And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you--he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.

[13]He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy money, must be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

[14]And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples: he hath broken my covenant.

[15]And God said to Abraham, As to Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

[16]And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her.

[17]And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

[18]And Abraham said to God Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

[19]And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

[20]And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

[21]But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.

[22]And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.

[23]And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money--every male among the people of Abraham's house--and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.

[24]And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

[25]And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

[26]In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

[27]and all the men of his house, born in his house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.