Genesis 17:1-27 And when Abram was ninety nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am thy God. Be well pleasing in my sight, and be blameless

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And when Abram was ninety nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, "I am thy God. Be well pleasing in my sight, and be blameless ² and I will establish that covenant of mine between me and thee and multiply thee exceedingly." ³ Whereupon Abram fell on his face, and God spake to him saying, ⁴ "On my part lo! this is my covenant with thee, Thou shalt be the father of a multitude of nations, ⁵ and thy name shall no more be called Abram but thy name, shall be Abraham; because I have made thee the father of many nations: ⁶ And I will increase thee exceedingly, and cause thee to become nations; and kings shall spring from thee: ⁷ And I will establish this my covenant with thee and thy seed after thee, throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be thy God and the God of thy seed after thee. ⁸ And I will give thee and thy seed after thee this land in which thou sojournest; even all the land of Chanaan for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God." ⁹ Moreover God said to Abraham, "On thy part thou shalt keep this my covenant; thou and thy seed after thee throughout their generations. ¹⁰ And this is the covenant which thou shalt keep between me and you, even thy seed after thee throughout their generations, Every male of you shall be circumcised. ¹¹ Ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be for a sign of the covenant between me and you. ¹² And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised among you. Every male throughout your generations, including the home born servant, and him who is bought with money from any stranger, not of thy seed. ¹³ Thy home born servant and he who is bought shall surely be circumcised. And this my covenant shall be on your flesh for an everlasting covenant. ¹⁴ And with regard to the uncircumcised male, the flesh of whose foreskin shall not be circumcised on the eighth day, that soul shall be cut off from its family, because it hath broken my covenant." ¹⁵ Moreover God said to Abraham, "Sara thy wife shall not be called Sara. Her name shall be Sarah. ¹⁶ And I will bless her and give thee a son by her. And I will bless him. And he shall become nations, and from him there shall be kings of nations." ¹⁷ Upon this Abraham fell on his face and smiled, and said in his heart, To him who is in his hundredth year shall a son be born? and shall Sarah bring forth in her ninetieth year? ¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Let this Ismael live before thee. ¹⁹ Whereupon God said to Abraham, Nay, behold Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaak. And I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant to be his God and the God of his seed after him. ²⁰ And as for Ismael, lo! I have hearkened to thee and behold I have blessed him, and I will increase him and multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve nations, and I will make him a great nation. ²¹ But this covenant of mine I will establish with Isaak whom Sarah shall bear about this time next year." ²² And when God had finished talking with him, and had ascended from him, ²³ Abraham took his son Ismael and all the servants born in his family and all those who were bought with money, even every male of the men in Abraham's family and circumcised their foreskins that very day, as God had ordered him. ²⁴ Now Abraham was ninety nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁵ And Ismael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁶ In one and the same day were circumcised Abraham and his son Ismael ²⁷ and all the men of his household, both his home born servants and those bought from foreign nations.