Genesis 17
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless.
2 I will establish my covenant between me and you, and I will multiply you greatly, greatly.”
3 Abram fell facedown, and God spoke to him:
4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you: you will be the father of a multitude of nations.
5 You will no longer be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, because I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.
7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations, as an everlasting covenant, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
8 I will give you and your descendants after you the land where you live as a foreigner, the whole land of Canaan, as a permanent possession, and I will be their God.”
9 God also said to Abraham, “As for you, keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you, generation after generation.
10 This is my covenant, which you must keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: every male among you must be circumcised.
11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and this will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
12 At eight days old, every boy among you must be circumcised, generation after generation, whether born in your household or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.
13 Those born in your household and those bought with your money must certainly be circumcised; my covenant will be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.
14 Any uncircumcised male who has not had the flesh of his foreskin circumcised will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
15 God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you will no longer call her Sarai, because her name is Sarah.
16 I will bless her, and I will also give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”
17 Abraham fell facedown and laughed. He said to himself, “Can a man who is a hundred years old have a son? And can Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”
18 Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael might live before you!”
19 God answered, “No; Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I have blessed him, and I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly, greatly. He will father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
21 But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear you at this time next year.”
22 When he finished speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.
23 Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, all those born in his household, and all those bought with his money—every male among the people of Abraham’s household—and that very day circumcised the flesh of their foreskins, as God had told him.
24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.
25 His son Ishmael was thirteen years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.
26 That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
27 All the men of his household, those born in the household and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
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