Genesis Chapter 17

Genesis Chapter 17
1 When Abram was ninety year old and
nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and
said unto him, I am God all sufficient.
walk before me, and be thou upright,
2 And I will make my covenant between
me and thee, and I will multiply thee
exceedingly.
3 Then Abram fell on his face, and God
talked with him, saying, 4 Behold, I
make my covenant with thee, and thou
shalt be a father of many nations,
5 Neither shall thy name any more be
called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham: for a father of many nations
have I made thee.
6 Also I will make thee exceeding
fruitful, and will make nations of thee:
yea, kings shall proceed of thee.
7 Moreover I will establish my covenant
between me and thee, and thy seed after
thee in their generations, for an
everlasting covenant, to be God unto
thee and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give thee and thy seed after
thee the land, wherein thou art a
stranger, even all the land of Canaan, for
an everlasting possession, and I will be
their God.
9 Again God said unto Abraham, Thou
also shalt keep my covenant, thou, and
thy seed after thee in their generations.
10 This is my covenant, which ye shall
keep between me and you, and thy seed
after thee, Let every man child among
you be circumcised:
11 That is, ye shall circumcise the
foreskin of your flesh, and it shall be a
sign of the covenant between me and
you.
12 And every man child of eight days
old among you, shall be circumcised in
your generations, as well he that is born
in thine house, as he that is bought with
money of any stranger, which is not of
thy seed.
13 He that is born in thine house, and he
that is bought with thy money, must
needs be circumcised: so my covenant
shall be in your flesh for an everlasting
covenant.
14 But the uncircumcised man child, in
whose flesh the foreskin is not
circumcised, even that person shall be
cut off from his people, because he hath
broken my covenant.
15 Afterward God said unto Abraham,
Sarai thy wife shalt thou not call Sarai,
but Sarah shall be her name.
16 And I will bless her, and will also
give thee a son of her, yea, I will bless
her and she shall be the mother of
nations: kings also of people shall come
of her.
17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and
laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a
child be born unto him, that is an
hundred year old? And shall Sarah that
is ninety years old bear?
18 And Abraham said unto God, Oh, that
Ishmael might live in thy sight. 19 Then
God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee
a son indeed, and thou shalt call his
name Isaac: and I will establish my
covenant with him for an everlasting
covenant, and with his seed after him.
20 And as concerning Ishmael, I have
heard thee: lo, I have blessed him, and
will make him fruitful, and will multiply
him exceedingly: twelve princes shall he
beget, and I will make a great nation of
him.
21 But my covenant will I establish with
Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee,
the next year at this season.
22 And he left off talking with him, and
God went up from Abraham. 23 Then
Abraham took Ishmael his son and all
that were born in his house, and all that
was bought with his money, that is,
every man child among the men of
Abraham’s house, and he circumcised
the foreskin of their flesh in that self
same day, as God had commanded him.
24 Abraham also himself was ninety
year old and nine, when the foreskin of
his flesh was circumcised.
25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen
year old, when the foreskin of his flesh
was circumcised.
26 The self same day was Abraham
circumcised, and Ishmael his son: 27
And all the men of his house, both born
in his house, and bought with money of
the stranger, were circumcised with him.