Genesis 17

1 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;

And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

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

And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

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

Abram fell flat on his face.

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

And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5 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;

Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.

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

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

7 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;

And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

8 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.”

And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

9 And God says to Abraham, “And you keep My covenant, you and your seed after you, throughout their generations;

Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

10 this [is] My covenant which you keep between Me and you, and your seed after you: every male of you [is] to be circumcised;

This is my covenant which you shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised:

11 and you have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it has become a token of a covenant between Me and you.

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

12 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;

An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock:

13 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;

And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

14 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.”

The male, whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

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

God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

16 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.”

And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

17 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?”

Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

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

And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

19 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.

And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

20 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;

And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

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

But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

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

And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

23 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.

And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that 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 forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.

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

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

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

And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.

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

The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.

27 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.

And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers were circumcised with him.