GE-17:1  And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD

appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God;

walk

before me, and be thou perfect.

GE-17:2  And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and

will

multiply thee exceedingly.

GE-17:3  And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him,

saying,

GE-17:4  As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou

shalt

be a father of many nations.

GE-17:5  Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but

thy name

shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

GE-17:6  And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make

nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

GE-17:7  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 unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

GE-17:8  And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee,

the

land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an

everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

GE-17:9  And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant

therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

GE-17:10  This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me

and

you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be

circumcised.

GE-17:11  And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin;

and it

shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

GE-17:12  And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised

among

you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the

house, or bought with money of any stranger, which [is] not of

thy

seed.

GE-17:13  He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought

with thy

money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in

your

flesh for an everlasting covenant.

GE-17:14  And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his

foreskin

is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people;

he

hath broken my covenant.

GE-17:15  And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou

shalt

not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name [be].

GE-17:16  And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her:

yea,

I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother] of nations; kings

of

people shall be of her.

GE-17:17  Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said

in

his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred

years

old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

GE-17:18  And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live

before

thee!

GE-17:19  And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son

indeed;

and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my

covenant

with him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after

him.

GE-17:20  And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have

blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him

exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a

great nation.

GE-17:21  But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which

Sarah

shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

GE-17:22  And he left off talking with him, and God went up from

Abraham.

GE-17:23  And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were

born in

his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male

among

the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their

foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

GE-17:24  And Abraham [was] ninety years old and nine, when he

was

circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

GE-17:25  And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old, when he

was

circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

GE-17:26  In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and

Ishmael his

son.

GE-17:27  And all the men of his house, born in the house, and

bought

with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.



~~~~~~