17When^a Abram was ninety-nine years old^b Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, “I am El-Shaddai;^c walk before me and be blameless ²so that^d I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you exceedingly.”^e ³Then Abram fell upon his face and God spoke with him, saying, ⁴“As for me, behold, my covenant shall be with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. ⁵Your name shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. ⁶And I will make you exceedingly^f fruitful. I will make you a nation, and kings shall go out from you. ⁷And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and between your offspring after you, throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant to be as God for you and to your offspring after you. ⁸And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land in which you are living as an alien,^g all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting property. And I will be to them as God.”

⁹And God said to Abraham, “Now as for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you, throughout their generations. ¹⁰This is my covenant which you shall keep, between me and you, and also with^h your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. ¹¹And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. ¹²And at eight days of ageⁱ you shall yourselves circumcise every male belonging to your generations and the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner^j who is not from your offspring. ¹³You must certainly circumcise^k the servant born in your house and the one bought with your money.^l And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴And as for any uncircumcised male who has not circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his^m people. He has broken my covenant.

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Genesis 17:7: And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

Footnotes

aLiterally “And it happened that”
bLiterally “a son of ninety years and nine years”
cOften translated “God Almighty”
dOr “and”
eLiterally “with very very”
fLiterally “with very very”
gLiterally “a land of your sojournings”
hOr “between”
iLiterally “a son of eight days”
jLiterally “those born of house and acquisition of money from every son of a foreigner”
kLiterally “circumcising you will circumcise”
lLiterally “those born of your house and acquisition of your money”
mLiterally “her”; the reference is still to a male; the pronoun is feminine because “person” (nephesh) is grammatically feminine