Gen 17
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And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, YHWH appeared to Abram, and said to
him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be you perfect.
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And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.
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And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying,
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As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude
of nations.
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Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham;
for the father of a multitude of nations have I made you.
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And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings
shall come out of you.
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And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout
their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed
after you.
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And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings,
all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
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And God said to Abraham, And as for you, you shall keep my covenant, you, and your
seed after you throughout their generations.
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This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after
you: every male among you shall be circumcised.
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And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token
of a covenant between me and you.
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And he who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout
your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner
that is not of your seed.
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He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must needs be
circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
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And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that
soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.
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And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai,
but Sarah shall her name be.
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And I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son of her: yea, I will bless
her, and she shall be [a mother of] nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.
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Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child
be born to him whom is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years
old, bear?
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And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before you!
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And God said, Nay, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son; and you shall call his
name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant
for his seed after him.
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And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him
fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he engender, and
I will make him a great nation.
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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this
set time in the next year.
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And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
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And 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 to him.
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And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of
his foreskin.
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And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of
his foreskin.
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In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
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And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money
of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.