17When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is right.H87H8673H8141H8141H1121H8672H3068H7200H87H559H7706H410H1980H6440H85492I will make my covenant with you and give you many descendants."H5414H1285H7235H3966H39663Abram bowed down with his face touching the ground, and God said,H87H5307H6440H430H1696H5594"I make this covenant with you: I promise that you will be the ancestor of many nations.H589H1285H1H1995H14715Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, because I am making you the ancestor of many nations.H8034H7121H87H8034H85H1H1995H1471H54146I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations.H6509H3966H3966H6509H5414H1471H4428H33187"I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.H6965H1285H2233H310H1755H5769H1285H430H2233H3108I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants forever, and I will be their God."H5414H2233H310H776H4033H776H3667H5769H272H4309God said to Abraham, "You also must agree to keep the covenant with me, both you and your descendants in future generations.H430H559H85H8104H1285H2233H310H175510You and your descendants must all agree to circumcise every male among you.H1285H8104H2233H310H2145H413511From now on you must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old,H5243H1320H6190H226H128512including slaves born in your homes and slaves bought from foreigners. This will show that there is a covenant between you and me.H8083H3117H1121H4135H2145H1755H3211H1004H4736H3701H1121H5236H223313Each one must be circumcised, and this will be a physical sign to show that my covenant with you is everlasting.H3211H1004H4736H3701H4135H4135H1285H1320H5769H128514Any male who has not been circumcised will no longer be considered one of my people, because he has not kept the covenant with me."H6189H2145H834H1320H6190H4135H5315H3772H5971H6565H128515God said to Abraham, "You must no longer call your wife Sarai; from now on her name is Sarah.H430H559H85H8297H802H7121H8034H8297H3588H8283H803416I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants."H1288H5414H1121H1288H1471H4428H597117Abraham bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he thought, "Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have a child at ninety?"H85H5307H6440H6711H559H3820H3205H3967H8141H1121H8283H8673H8141H1323H320518He asked God, "Why not let Ishmael be my heir?"H85H559H430H3863H3458H2421H644019But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants forever. It is an everlasting covenant.H430H559H8283H802H3205H1121H61H7121H8034H3327H6965H1285H5769H1285H2233H31020I have heard your request about Ishmael, so I will bless him and give him many children and many descendants. He will be the father of twelve princes, and I will make a great nation of his descendants.H3458H8085H1288H6509H7235H3966H3966H6240H8147H5387H3205H5414H1419H147121But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year."H1285H6965H3327H8283H3205H4150H312H814122When God finished speaking to Abraham, he left him.H3615H1696H430H5927H8523On that same day Abraham obeyed God and circumcised his son Ishmael and all the other males in his household, including the slaves born in his home and those he had bought.H85H3947H3458H1121H3211H1004H4736H3701H2145H582H85H1004H4135H1320H6190H6106H3117H430H169624Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,H85H8673H8141H1121H8672H4135H1320H619025and his son Ishmael was thirteen.H3458H1121H6240H7969H8141H1121H4135H1320H619026They were both circumcised on the same day,H6106H3117H85H4135H3458H112127together with all of Abraham's slaves.H582H1004H3211H1004H4736H3701H1121H5236H4135
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