The Covenant of Circumcision

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old,^(A) the Lord appeared to him^(B) and said, “I am God Almighty^[a];^(C) walk before me faithfully and be blameless.^(D)

⁴⁰ “He replied, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked faithfully,^(A) will send his angel with you^(B) and make your journey a success,^(C) so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father’s family.^(D)

³ “Remember,^(A) Lord, how I have walked^(B) before you faithfully^(C) and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.