Genesis 17

1 When Abram was ninetie yeere olde and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said vnto him, I am God all sufficient. walke before me, and be thou vpright,

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 make my couenant betweene me and thee, and I will multiplie thee exceedingly.

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

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

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

4 Beholde, I make my couenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations,

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

5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shalbe Abraham: for a father of many nations haue 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 Also I will make thee exceeding fruitfull, and will make nations of thee: yea, Kings shall proceede of thee.

and I have made you exceedingly fruitful, and made you become nations, and kings go out from you.

7 Moreouer I wil establish my couenant betweene me and thee, and thy seede after thee in their generations, for an euerlasting couenant, to be God vnto thee and to thy seede 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 will giue thee and thy seede after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, euen all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.

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 Againe God said vnto Abraham, Thou also shalt keepe my couenant, thou, and thy seede 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 couenant which ye shall keepe betweene me and you, and thy seede after thee, Let euery man childe 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 That is, ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh, and it shalbe a signe of the couenant betweene 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 euery man childe of eight dayes olde among you, shalbe circumcised in your generations, aswell he that is borne in thine house, as he that is bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seede.

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 that is borne in thine house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needes be circumcised: so my couenant shall be in your flesh for an euerlasting couenant.

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 But the vncircumcised man childe, in whose flesh the foreskin is not circumcised, euen that person shall be cut off from his people, because he hath broken my couenant.

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 Afterward God said vnto Abraham, Sarai thy wife shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sarah shalbe 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 blesse her, and will also giue thee a sonne of her, yea, I will blesse her, and she shall be the mother of nations: Kings also of people shall come 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 Then Abraham fell vpon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a childe be borne vnto him, that is an hundreth yeere olde? and shall Sarah that is ninetie yeere olde beare?

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 saide vnto God, Oh, that Ishmael might liue in thy sight.

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

19 Then God saide, Sarah thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, and thou shalt call his name Izhak: and I will establish my couenant with him for an euerlasting couenant, and with his seede 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 as concerning Ishmael, I haue heard thee: loe, I haue blessed him, and will make him fruitfull, and will multiplie him exceedingly: twelue princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.

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 couenant will I establish with Izhak, which Sarah shall beare vnto thee, the next yeere at this season.

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 vp from Abraham.

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

23 Then Abraham tooke Ishmael his sonne and all that were borne in his house, and all that was bought with his money, that is, euery man childe among the men of Abrahams house, and he circumcised the foreskinne of their flesh in that selfe same day, as God had comaunded 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 Abraham also himselfe was ninetie yeere olde and nine, when the foreskinne of his flesh was circumcised.

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

25 And Ishmael his sonne was thirteene yeere olde, when the foreskinne of his flesh was circumcised.

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

26 The selfe same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his sonne:

in this very same day Abraham has been circumcised, and his son Ishmael;

27 And all the men of his house, both borne in his house, and 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.