¹⁶And I will bless her; moreover, I give to you from her a son. And I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations.ⁿ Kings of peoples shall come^o from her.” ¹⁷And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, “Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old,^p or can Sarah bear a child at ninety?”^q ¹⁸And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!” ¹⁹And God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him. ²⁰And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him exceedingly.^r He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. ²¹But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this appointed time next year.” ²²When^s he finished speaking with him, God went up from Abraham. ²³And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all who were born of his house, and all those acquired by his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the same day that God spoke with him. ²⁴Abraham was ninety-nine years old^t when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁵And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old^u when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁶Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day. ²⁷And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those acquired by money from a foreigner,^v were circumcised with him.

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Footnotes

nLiterally “she shall become to nations”
oOr “be”
pLiterally “to a man one hundred years old can he be born?”
qLiterally “can ninety-year-old Sarah bear a child?”
rLiterally “with very very”
sOr “And”
tLiterally “a son of ninety and nine years”
uLiterally “a son of three ten years”
vLiterally “born of house and acquisition of money from the son of a foreigner”