17Genesis 17

1And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I am God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;Select Genesis 17:1

2and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'Select Genesis 17:2

3And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,Select Genesis 17:3

4`I--lo, My covenant is with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;Select Genesis 17:4

5and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;Select Genesis 17:5

6and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.Select Genesis 17:6

7`And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;Select Genesis 17:7

8and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'Select Genesis 17:8

9And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;Select Genesis 17:9

10this is My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you is to be circumcised;Select Genesis 17:10

11and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.Select Genesis 17:11

12`And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed;Select Genesis 17:12

13he is certainly circumcised who is born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;Select Genesis 17:13

14and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'Select Genesis 17:14

15And God saith unto Abraham, `Sarai thy wife--thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah is her name;Select Genesis 17:15

16and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations--kings of peoples are from her.'Select Genesis 17:16

17And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah--daughter of ninety years--bear?'Select Genesis 17:17

18And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'Select Genesis 17:18

19and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.Select Genesis 17:19

20As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;Select Genesis 17:20

21and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'Select Genesis 17:21

22and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.Select Genesis 17:22

23And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money--every male among the men of Abraham's house--and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.Select Genesis 17:23

24And Abraham is a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;Select Genesis 17:24

25and Ishmael his son is a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;Select Genesis 17:25

26in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;Select Genesis 17:26

27and all the men of his house--born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger--have been circumcised with him.Select Genesis 17:27