Genesis 17

1 In truth, after he began to be ninety-nine years of age, the Lord appeared to him. And he said to him: “I am the Almighty God. Walk in my sight and become complete.

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;

2 And I will set my covenant between me and you. And I will multiply you very exceedingly.”

and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'

3 Abram fell prone on his face.

And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,

4 And God said to him: “I AM, and my covenant is with you, and 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;

5 No longer will your name be called Abram. But you will be called Abraham, for I have established you as the 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;

6 And I will cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you.

and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and with your offspring after you in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be God to you and to your offspring 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;

8 And I will give to you and to your offspring, the land of your sojourn, 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.'

9 Again God said to Abraham: “And you therefore shall keep my covenant, and your offspring after you in their generations.

And God saith unto Abraham, 'And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

10 This is my covenant, which you shall observe, between me and you, and your offspring after you: All the males among you shall 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;

11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, so that it may 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.

12 An infant of eight days will be circumcised among you, every male in your generations. So also servants born to you, as well as those bought, shall be circumcised, even those who are not of your stock.

'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;

13 And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an eternal 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;

14 The male, the flesh of whose foreskin will not be circumcised, that soul shall be eliminated from his people. For he has made my covenant void.”

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.'

15 God said also to Abraham: “Your wife Sarai, you shall not call Sarai, but Sarah.

And God saith unto Abraham, 'Sarai thy wife — thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [is] her name;

16 And I will bless her, and from her I will give you a son, whom I will bless, and he will be among the nations, and the kings of the peoples will rise from him.”

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.'

17 Abraham fell on his face, and he laughed, saying in his heart: “Do you think a son can be born to a one hundred year old man? And will 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?'

18 And he said to God, “If only Ishmael would live in your sight.”

And Abraham saith unto God, 'O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

19 And God said to Abraham: “Your wife Sarah shall give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant, and with his offspring 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.

20 Likewise, concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless and enlarge him, and I will multiply him greatly. He will produce twelve leaders, 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;

21 Yet in truth, I will establish my covenant with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth for 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;'

22 And when he had finished speaking with him, God ascended from Abraham.

and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.

23 Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all who were born in his house, and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin promptly, the very same day, just as God had instructed 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.

24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

And Abraham [is] a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

25 And his son Ishmael had completed thirteen years at the time of his circumcision.

and Ishmael his son [is] a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

26 On the very same day, Abraham was circumcised with his son Ishmael.

in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

27 And all the men of his house, those born in his house, as well as those who were bought, even the 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.