Genesis 17:1-9 ▼

1 When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, |I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

2 Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.|

3 Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him,

4 As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

5 No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.

6 I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.

7 I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

8 I will give the whole land of Canaan--the land where you are now residing--to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.|

9 Then God said to Abraham, |As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.