Genesis 17

17^*And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am ^athe Almighty God; ^bwalk before me, and be thou ^||cperfect. ²And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and ^dwill multiply thee exceedingly. ³And Abram ^efell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, ⁴As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be ^fa father of ^†many nations. ⁵Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but ^gthy name shall be ^||Abraham; ^hfor a father of many nations have I made thee. ⁶And I will make thee exceeding ⁱfruitful, and I will make ^knations of thee, and ^lkings shall come out of thee. ⁷And I will ^mestablish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, ⁿto be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. ⁸And ^oI will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land ^†pwherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and ^pI will be their God. ⁹And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, 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; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. ¹¹And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be ^qa token of the covenant betwixt me and you. ¹²And ^†he that is eight days old ^rshall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. ¹³He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. ¹⁵And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but ^||Sarah shall her name be. ¹⁶And I will bless her, ^sand give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and ^†she shall be a mother ^tof nations; kings of people shall be of her. ¹⁷Then Abraham fell upon his face, ^uand laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? ¹⁸And Abraham said unto God, O that ^xIshmael might live before thee! ¹⁹And God said, ^ySarah 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. ²⁰And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and ^zwill make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; ^atwelve princes shall he beget, ^band I will make him a great nation. ²¹But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. ²²And he left off talking with him, and ^cGod went up from Abraham.

²³And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. ²⁴And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, 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. ²⁶In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. ²⁷And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.