Genesis 17:16–27

¹⁶“I will bless her, and indeed I will give you ^aa son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; ^bkings of peoples will ¹come from her.”

¹⁷Then Abraham ^afell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And ^bwill Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

¹⁸And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You!”

¹⁹But God said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you ^aa son, and you shall call his name ¹Isaac; and ^bI will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his ²descendants after him.

²⁰“As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and ^awill make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. ^bHe shall ¹become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a ^cgreat nation.

²¹“But My covenant I will establish with ^aIsaac, whom ^bSarah will bear to you at this season next year.”

²²When He finished talking with him, ^aGod went up from Abraham.

²³Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were ^aborn in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, ^bas God had said to him.

²⁴Now Abraham was ninety-nine years old when ^ahe was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

²⁵And ^aIshmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

²⁶In the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

²⁷All the men of his household, who were ^aborn in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.