1And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, YAHUAH appeared to Abram, and
said unto him, I [am] the Almighty YAHUAH; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee
exceedingly.
3 And Abram fell on his face: and YAHUAH talked with him, saying,
4 As for me, behold, my covenant [is] with thee, and thou shalt be a father of
many nations.
5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be
Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
6 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and
kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee
in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a Father unto thee, and
to thy seed after thee.
8 And 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 Almighty One.
9 And YAHUAH said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and
thy seed after thee in their generations.
10 This [is] my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed
after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token
of the covenant betwixt me and you.
12 And 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.
13 He 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.
14 And 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.
15 And YAHUAH said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her
name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name [be].
16 And 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.
17 Then 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?
18 And Abraham said unto YAHUAH, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
19 And YAHUAH 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.
20 And 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.
21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee
at this set time in the next year.
22 And he left off talking with him, and YAHUAH went up from Abraham.
23 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
YAHUAH had said unto him.
24 And Abraham [was] ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin.
25 And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the
flesh of his foreskin.
26 In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
27 And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the
stranger, were circumcised with him.