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.

And Abram is a son of ninety-nine years, and YHWH appears to Abram, and says to him, “I [am] God Almighty, habitually walk before Me, and be perfect;

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

and I give My covenant between Me and you, and multiply you very exceedingly.”

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

And Abram falls on his face, and God speaks with him, saying,

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

“I—behold, My covenant [is] with you, and you have become father of a multitude of 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.

and your name is no longer called Abram, but your name has been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made you;

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

and I have made you exceedingly fruitful, and made you become nations, and kings go out 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 have established My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you, throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to become God to you, and to your seed 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 have given to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a continuous possession, and I have become 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.

And God says to Abraham, “And you keep My covenant, you and your seed after you, throughout 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 keep between Me and you, and your seed after you: every male of you [is] to 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 have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it has become a token of a 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.

And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male throughout your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of your seed;

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.

he is certainly circumcised who [is] born in your house, or bought with your money; and My covenant has become in your flesh a perpetual 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.

and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, indeed, that person has been cut off from his people; My covenant he has broken.”

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

And God says to Abraham, “Sarai your wife—you do not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [is] her name;

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 have blessed her, and have also given to you a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she has become nations—kings of peoples are from her.”

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?

And Abraham falls on his face, and laughs, and says in his heart, “Is one born to the son of one hundred years? Or does Sarah—daughter of ninety years—bear?”

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

And Abraham says to God, “O that Ishmael may live before You”;

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 says, “Your wife Sarah is certainly bearing a son to you, and you have called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a perpetual covenant, to his seed 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.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes does he beget, and I have made him become 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.

and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah does bear to you at this appointed time in the next year”;

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

and He finishes speaking with him, and God goes up 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.

And Abraham takes his son Ishmael, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money—every male among the men of Abraham’s house and circumcises the flesh of their foreskin, in this very same day, as God has spoken with him.

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

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

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

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

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

in this very same day Abraham has been circumcised, and 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—born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger—have been circumcised with him.