Chapter 17

  And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, 'I [am] God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;  

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  and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'  

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  And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,  

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  'I -- lo, My covenant [is] with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;  

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  and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;  

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  and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.  

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  'And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;  

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  and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'  

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  And God saith unto Abraham, 'And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;  

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  this [is] My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you [is] to be circumcised;  

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  and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.  

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  'And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed;  

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  he is certainly circumcised who [is] born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;  

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  and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'  

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  And God saith unto Abraham, 'Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [is] her name;  

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  and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.'  

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  And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, 'To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'  

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  And Abraham saith unto God, 'O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'  

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  and God saith, 'Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.  

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  As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;  

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  and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'  

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  and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.  

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  And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money -- every male among the men of Abraham's house -- and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.  

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  And Abraham [is] a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;  

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  and Ishmael his son [is] a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;  

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  in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;  

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  and all the men of his house -- born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger -- have been circumcised with him.  

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