Genesis 17:10–27

¹⁰This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised. ¹¹You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between Me and you. ^rs12Throughout your generations, every male among you at eight days old is to be circumcised. ^tThis includes a slave born in your house and one purchased with money from any foreigner. The one who is not your offspring, ¹³a slave born in your house, as well as one purchased with money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be marked in your flesh as an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

¹⁵God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah ^uwill be her name. ¹⁶I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. ^vI will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

¹⁷Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed ^wand said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?” ¹⁸So Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael were acceptable to You!” ^x

¹⁹But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. ^yI will confirm My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his future offspring. ²⁰As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father 12 tribal leaders, ^zand I will make him into a great nation. ²¹But I will confirm My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.” ^a22When He finished talking with him, God withdrew ^bfrom Abraham. ^c

²³Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him. ²⁴Abraham was 99 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised, ²⁵and his son Ishmael was 13 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised. ²⁶On that same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised. ²⁷And all the men of his household—both slaves born in his house and those purchased with money from a foreigner—were circumcised with him.