1 When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. The Lord said, “I am the Almighty God. Do these things for me: obey my commands and live in the right way.
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2 If you do this, I will make an agreement between you and me. I will make your people a great nation.
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3 Then Abram worshiped God. God said to him,
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4 This is my covenant: I will make thee a father of many nations.
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5 I will change your name. Your name will not be Abram – your name will be Abraham. I will give you this name because I am making you the father of many nations.
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6 I will give you many descendants. New nations and kings will be born from you.
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7 I am establishing my covenant between me and you and your descendants forever. I will be your God and the God of all your descendants.
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8 And I will give this land unto thee, and unto thy seed after thee. I will give you the land you are passing through – the land of Canaan. I will give this land to you forever. And I will be your God.
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9 And God said unto Abraham, This is thy covenant; You and your descendants will keep my agreement.
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10 This is the agreement you will keep. This agreement is between you and me. This is for all your descendants: every boy born must be circumcised.
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11 You will cut off the flesh to show that you are obeying the agreement between me and you.
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12 When the son is eight days old, you must circumcise him. Any boy born in your house or even in the house of a foreign slave whom you have bought who does not belong to you must be circumcised.
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13 So every male among your descendants will be circumcised. Any boy born into your family or bought as a slave must be circumcised. In this way, my agreement will be marked on your bodies as an eternal agreement.
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14 This is the covenant between me and thee, Abraham: whosoever is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from among his people. For he hath broken my covenant.
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15 God said to Abraham, “I will give your wife Sarai a new name. Her name will be Sarah.
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16 I will bless him. I will give him a son, and you will be his father. She will be the mother of many new nations. It will produce kings of the nations. ”
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17 Abraham bowed down to the earth to show his reverence for God. But he laughed and thought to himself, “I am 100 years old. I can’t have a son. And Sarah is 90 years old. She can’t have a baby. ”
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18 Then Abraham said to God, “Can’t you continue your promise through Ishmael?”
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19 God said, “No! I said that your wife Sarah would give birth to a son. You name him Isaac. I will make a contract with him. That agreement will be an agreement that will continue forever with his successors.
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20 “You mentioned Ishmael. And I have heard. I will bless him. She will have many children. He will be the father of twelve great leaders. His family will become a great nation.
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21 But I will make my agreement with Isaac. Isaac will be the son Sarah will give birth to. This son will be born at this time next year. ”
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22 When God had spoken to Abraham, he ascended into heaven.
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23 God told Abraham to circumcise all the men and boys in his family. So Abraham gathered Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house. Abraham also collected the slaves who were bought with money. Every man and boy in Abraham’s house was gathered together and circumcised, as God had said.
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24 Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised.
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25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.
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26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.
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27 And all the house of Abraham was circumcised on the same day. All the slaves born in his house and all the slaves he bought were circumcised.
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