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| 1When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless, | 1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. |
| 2that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.” | 2And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. |
| 3Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, | 3And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, |
| 4“Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. | 4As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. |
| 5No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. | 5Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee. |
| 6I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make you into nations, and kings shall come from you. | 6And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. |
| 7And 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. | 7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. |
| 8And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.” | 8And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God. |
| 9And God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. | 9And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations. |
| 10This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. | 10This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. |
| 11You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. | 11And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you. |
| 12He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised. Every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring, | 12And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. |
| 13both he who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money, shall surely be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. | 13He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. |
| 14Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.” | 14And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. |
| 15And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. | 15And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. |
| 16I will bless her, and moreover, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her.” | 16And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her. |
| 17Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” | 17Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear? |
| 18And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!” | 18And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! |
| 19God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him. | 19And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. |
| 20As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a great nation. | 20And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. |
| 21But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this time next year.” | 21But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year. |
| 22When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. | 22And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. |
| 23Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him. | 23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. |
| 24Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. | 24And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. |
| 25And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. | 25And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. |
| 26That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised. | 26In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. |
| 27And all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him. | 27And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. |
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