Genesis 17

1 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;

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

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

And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.

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

And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

4 'I — lo, My covenant [is] with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

5 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;

No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

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

I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

7 '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;

And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

8 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.'

And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

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

And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

10 this [is] My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you [is] to be circumcised;

And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

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

In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

12 '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;

Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.

13 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;

He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.

14 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.'

And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

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

And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

16 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.'

And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

17 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?'

Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

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

And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

19 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.

And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

20 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;

As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

21 and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'

But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

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

And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.

23 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.

And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

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

Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.

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

And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision.

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

Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.

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, those whose birth had taken place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent circumcision with him.