I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your [a]descendants after you throughout their generations for an (A)everlasting covenant, (B)to be God to you and (C)to your [b]descendants after you. (D)I will give to you and to your [c]descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and (E)I will be their God.”

God said further to Abraham, “Now as for you, (F)you shall keep My covenant, you and your [d]descendants after you throughout their generations. 10 (G)This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your [e]descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 And (H)you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you. 12 And every male among you who is (I)eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, a servant who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your [f]descendants. 13 A servant who is born in your house or (J)who is bought with your money shall surely be circumcised; thus shall My covenant be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be (K)cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but [g]Sarah shall be her name. 16 I will bless her, and indeed I will give you (L)a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; (M)kings of peoples will [h]come from her.” 17 Then Abraham (N)fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man one hundred years old? And (O)will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” 18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You!” 19 But God said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you (P)a son, and you shall call his name [i]Isaac; and (Q)I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his [j]descendants after him. 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and (R)will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. (S)He shall [k]become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a (T)great nation. 21 But My covenant I will establish with (U)Isaac, whom (V)Sarah will bear to you at this season next year.” 22 When He finished talking with him, (W)God went up from Abraham.

23 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were (X)born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, (Y)as God had said to him. 24 Now Abraham was ninety-nine years old when (Z)he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And (AA)Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son. 27 All the men of his household, who were (AB)born in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 17:7 Lit seed
  2. Genesis 17:7 Lit seed
  3. Genesis 17:8 Lit seed
  4. Genesis 17:9 Lit seed
  5. Genesis 17:10 Lit seed
  6. Genesis 17:12 Lit seed
  7. Genesis 17:15 I.e. princess
  8. Genesis 17:16 Lit be
  9. Genesis 17:19 I.e. he laughs
  10. Genesis 17:19 Lit seed
  11. Genesis 17:20 Lit beget twelve princes

45 (A)I will dwell among the sons of Israel and will be their God. 46 They shall know that (B)I am the Lord their God who brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I might dwell among them; I am the Lord their God.

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45 (A)For I am the Lord who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God; thus (B)you shall be holy, for I am holy.’”

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12 (A)I will also walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people. 13 (B)I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and (C)I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

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45 But I will remember for them the (A)covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that (B)I might be their God. I am the Lord.’”

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13 in order that He may establish you today as His people and that (A)He may be your God, just as He spoke to you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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