◄ Genesis 17:9 ►
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Good News Translation
God said to Abraham, "You also must agree to keep the covenant with me, both you and your descendants in future generations.

New Revised Standard Version
God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.

Contemporary English Version
Abraham, you and all future members of your family must promise to obey me.

New American Bible
God said to Abraham: For your part, you and your descendants after you must keep my covenant throughout the ages.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Psalm 25:10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalm 103:18 To such as keep his covenant, And are mindful of his commandments to do them.

Isaiah 56:4,5 For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, They that shall keep my sabbaths, and shall choose the things that please me, and shall hold fast my covenant: . . .

Context
The Covenant of Circumcision
9Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.10This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male-kind of you shall be circumcised.…
Cross References
Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.

Genesis 18:19
For I know that he will command his children, and his household after him, to keep the way of the Lord, and do judgment and justice: that for Abraham's sake, the Lord may bring to effect all the things he hath spoken unto him.

Exodus 19:5
If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.

Genesis 17:8
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