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Genesis 17

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When Abram was ninety - nine years old , the LORD appeared to him and said , “ I am God Almighty . Walk before Me and be blameless.
And 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;
I will establish My covenant between Me and you , and I will multiply you exceedingly. ”
and I give My covenant between Me and thee , and multiply thee very exceedingly. '
Then Abram fell facedown , and God said to him,
And Abram falleth upon his face , and God speaketh with him, saying,
“As for Me , this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations .
`I -- lo , My covenant `is' with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations ;
No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations .
and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;
I will make you exceedingly fruitful ; I will make nations of you , and kings will descend from you .
and I have made thee exceeding fruitful , and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee .
I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you , to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
`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;
And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan —as an eternal possession ; and I will be their God. ”
and 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. '
God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant —you and your descendants in the generations after you.
And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant , thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;
This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep : Every male among you must be circumcised .
this ` is ' My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee : Every male of you `is' to be circumcised ;
You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.
Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old , including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
`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;
Whether they are born in your household or purchased , they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant .
he 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;
But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant. ”
and 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 . '
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife , do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
And God saith unto Abraham, ` Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah `is' her name ;
And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her . I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations ; kings of peoples will descend from her. ”
and 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. '
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself , “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old ? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety? ”
And 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 ? '
And Abraham said to God, “ O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
And Abraham saith unto God, ` O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'
But God replied , “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac . I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
and 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.
As for Ishmael, I have heard you , and I will surely bless him ; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers , and I will make him into a great nation .
As 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 ;
But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year .”
and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year ;'
When He had finished speaking with Abraham , God went up from him .
and He finisheth speaking with him , and God goeth up from Abraham .
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money — every male among the members of Abraham’s household— and he circumcised them , just as God had told him.
And 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.
So Abraham was ninety - nine years old when he was circumcised ,
And Abraham `is' a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised ;
and his son Ishmael was thirteen;
and Ishmael his son `is' a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised ;
Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.
in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son ;
And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.
and 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.

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