Genesis 17:1–14

¹And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty •God: walk before my face, and be perfect. ²And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee. ³And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,

⁴It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations. ⁵And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee. ⁶And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

⁷And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. ⁸And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them. ⁹And God said to Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations. ¹⁰This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee—that every male among you be circumcised. ¹¹And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and that shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. ¹²And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you—he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed. ¹³He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy money, must be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples: he hath broken my covenant.