创世记 17
1 亚伯兰年九十九岁的时候，耶和华向他显现，对他说：“我是全能的 神。你当在我面前作完全人，
When Abram was 99 years old, Yahweh appeared to him again and said to him, “I am God Almighty. I want you to live in a way that I will regard you as someone that cannot be criticized.
2 我就与你立约，使你的后裔极其繁多。”
If you do that, I will make an agreement with you in which I will promise to enable you to have very many descendants.” [MTY]
3 亚伯兰俯伏在地； 神又对他说：
Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,
4 “我与你立约：你要作多国的父。
“Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.
5 从此以后，你的名不再叫亚伯兰，要叫亚伯拉罕，因为我已立你作多国的父。
And no longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham, [which means ‘father of many nations,’] because the people of many nations will descend from you.
6 我必使你的后裔极其繁多；国度从你而立，君王从你而出。
I will enable you to have very many descendants, and I will cause them to become great nations/people-groups, and some of your descendants will become kings.
7 我要与你并你世世代代的后裔坚立我的约，作永远的约，是要作你和你后裔的 神。
I will make this agreement between me and you and your descendants. It will be an everlasting agreement to be in effect for many generations. This agreement is that I will be your God, and the God of your descendants.
8 我要将你现在寄居的地，就是迦南全地，赐给你和你的后裔永远为业，我也必作他们的 神。”
I will give to you and to your descendants the land through which you are now traveling, all of the Canaan region. It will be an everlasting possession for your descendants, and I will be the God that they [will worship].”
9 神又对亚伯拉罕说：“你和你的后裔必世世代代遵守我的约。
Then God said to Abraham, “Now you must obey [your part of] the agreement that I am making with you, and your descendants must also obey it, for all generations.
10 你们所有的男子都要受割礼；这就是我与你并你的后裔所立的约，是你们所当遵守的。
This is the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.
11 你们都要受割礼；这是我与你们立约的证据。
(Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with you.
12 你们世世代代的男子，无论是家里生的，是在你后裔之外用银子从外人买的，生下来第八日，都要受割礼。
Every male child among you must be circumcised when he is eight days old, in all future generations. That includes baby boys in your household or those born from slaves that have been bought, and baby boys of foreigners who live among you but do not belong to your household.
13 你家里生的和你用银子买的，都必须受割礼。这样，我的约就立在你们肉体上作永远的约。
It does not matter whether their parents are members of your household or slaves that have been bought; they must all be circumcised. Your bodies will have this mark to show [you have accepted] this everlasting agreement I am making.
14 但不受割礼的男子必从民中剪除，因他背了我的约。”
You must expel from your community any male who has not been circumcised, because [by not being circumcised] that person has disobeyed my agreement.”
15 神又对亚伯拉罕说：“你的妻子撒莱不可再叫撒莱，她的名要叫撒拉。
God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai, your wife, you must not call her Sarai any longer. [Since I changed your name, I will change her name also]. Her name will now be Sarah.
16 我必赐福给她，也要使你从她得一个儿子。我要赐福给她，她也要作多国之母；必有百姓的君王从她而出。”
I will bless her, and she will surely give birth to a son for you. And I will bless her so much that she will be the ancestor of people of many nations. Kings of some people-groups will be descended from her.”
17 亚伯拉罕就俯伏在地喜笑，心里说：“一百岁的人还能得孩子吗？撒拉已经九十岁了，还能生养吗？”
Abraham prostrated himself with his face on the ground [to show respect to God]. But then he laughed as he said to himself, “Can a man who is a 100 years old become a father of a son? And since Sarah is 90 years old, how can she bear a child?”
18 亚伯拉罕对 神说：“但愿以实玛利活在你面前。”
Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”
19 神说：“不然，你妻子撒拉要给你生一个儿子，你要给他起名叫以撒。我要与他坚定所立的约，作他后裔永远的约。
Then God replied, “[No!] Your wife Sarah will bear a son for you. You must name him Isaac. I will establish my agreement with him, one which will be an everlasting agreement for him and his descendants.
20 至于以实玛利，我也应允你：我必赐福给他，使他昌盛，极其繁多。他必生十二个族长；我也要使他成为大国。
As for Ishmael, I have heard what you asked me to do for him. I will bless him so that he also will have many descendants. Among his descendants will be rulers of twelve nations. And I will cause his [descendants] [MTY] to also become a great nation.
21 到明年这时节，撒拉必给你生以撒，我要与他坚定所立的约。”
But Isaac, the son whom Sarah will give birth to at this time next year, is the one with whom I will establish my agreement.”
22 神和亚伯拉罕说完了话，就离开他上升去了。
When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.
23 正当那日，亚伯拉罕遵着 神的命，给他的儿子以实玛利和家里的一切男子，无论是在家里生的，是用银子买的，都行了割礼。
On that same day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the males that were in his household, including the sons of all the slaves he had bought, and circumcised them. He cut off their foreskins, just as God told him to do.
24 亚伯拉罕受割礼的时候年九十九岁。
Abraham was 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),
25 他儿子以实玛利受割礼的时候年十三岁。
and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.
26 正当那日，亚伯拉罕和他儿子以实玛利一同受了割礼。
On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.
27 家里所有的人，无论是在家里生的，是用银子从外人买的，也都一同受了割礼。
And all the males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those who had been bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.
