¹⁴ Now ^(A)when Abram heard that ^(B)his brother was taken captive, he armed his three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were ^(C)born in his own house, and went in pursuit ^(D)as far as Dan.

¹³ He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

²⁷ and ^(A)all the men of his house, born in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

⁴ If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

⁷ I acquired male and female servants, and had ^[a]servants born in my house. Yes, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

Jeremiah Called to Be a Priest

1 The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests who were ^(A)in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, ² to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of ^(B)Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, ^(C)in the thirteenth year of his reign. ³ It came also in the days of ^(D)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, ^(E)until the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah, king of Judah, ^(F)until the carrying away of Jerusalem captive ^(G)in the fifth month.

The Prophet Is Called

⁴ Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

⁶ Then said I:

⁷ But the Lord said to me:

⁹ Then the Lord put forth His hand and ^(O)touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me:

¹¹ Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”

And I said, “I see a ^[c]branch of an almond tree.”

¹² Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am ^[d]ready to perform My word.”

¹³ And the word of the Lord came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?”

And I said, “I see ^(S)a boiling pot, and it is facing away from the north.”

¹⁴ Then the Lord said to me: