Genesis 17

1 And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty God: walk before my face, and be perfect.

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.

2 And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.

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

3 And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,

Abram fell prone on his face.

4 It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

And God said to him: “I AM, and my covenant is with you, and you will be the father of many nations.

5 And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

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.

6 And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

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

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 to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

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.

8 And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them.

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.”

9 And God said to Abraham, And [as for] thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations.

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

10 This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee — that every male among you be circumcised.

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.

11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and [that] shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, so that it may be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

12 And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you — he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.

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.

13 He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy money, must be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an eternal covenant.

14 And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples: he hath broken my covenant.

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.”

15 And God said to Abraham, [As to] Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

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

16 And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her.

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.”

17 And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

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?”

18 And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

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

19 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

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.

20 And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

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.

21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.

Yet in truth, I will establish my covenant with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth for you at this time next year.”

22 And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.

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

23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money — every male among the people of Abraham's house — and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.

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.

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

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

25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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

26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

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

27 and all the men of his house, born in his house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

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.