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.

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