Genesis 17

¹When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, I am God Almighty ; walk before me, and be blameless ,

²that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly .

³Then Abram fell on his face . And God said to him,

⁴Behold , my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations .

⁵No longer shall your name be called Abram , but your name shall be Abraham , for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations .

⁶I will make you exceedingly fruitful , and I will make you into nations , and kings shall come from you.

⁷And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant , to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

⁸And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings , all the land of Canaan , for an everlasting possession , and I will be their God .

⁹And God said to Abraham , As for you, you shall keep my covenant , you and your offspring after you throughout their generations .

¹⁰This is my covenant , which you shall keep , between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised .

¹¹You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins , and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

¹²He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised . Every male throughout your generations , whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring ,

¹³both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money , shall surely be circumcised . So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant .

¹⁴Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people ; he has broken my covenant .

¹⁵And God said to Abraham , As for Sarai your wife , you shall not call her name Sarai , but Sarah shall be her name .

¹⁶I will bless her , and moreover , I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations ; kings of peoples shall come from her.

¹⁷Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself , Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old ? Shall Sarah , who is ninety years old , bear a child ?

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

¹⁹God said , No , but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son , and you shall call his name Isaac . I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

²⁰As for Ishmael , I have heard you; behold , I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly . He shall father twelve princes , and I will make him into a great nation .

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

²²When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham .

²³Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money , every male among the men of Abraham’s house , and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day , as God had said to him.

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

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

²⁶That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised .

²⁷And all the men of his house , those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner , were circumcised with him.