¹⁷Abraham 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?

¹⁸And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

¹⁹And 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.

²⁰And 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.

²¹But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

²²And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

²³And 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.

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

²⁵And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.

²⁶The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.

²⁷And 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.

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