17When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and announced, "I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and be blameless.H87H8673H8141H8141H1121H8672H3068H7200H87H559H7706H410H1980H6440H8549 2I'll establish my covenant between me and you, and I'll greatly increase your numbers."H5414H1285H7235H3966H3966 3Then Abram fell to the ground as God continued speaking to him.H87H5307H6440H430H1696H559 4"Look, I have made a covenant with you. You will be the father of many nations.H589H1285H1H1995H1471 5Your name is no longer to be Abram. Instead your name will be Abraham, since I'll make you the father of many nations.H8034H7121H87H8034H85H1H1995H1471H5414 6I'm going to cause you to become very fruitful, and I'll bring nations from you. Kings will come from you.H6509H3966H3966H6509H5414H1471H4428H3318 7I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, and with your descendants who come after you throughout their generations as an eternal covenant, to be your God and your descendants' God after you.H6965H1285H2233H310H1755H5769H1285H430H2233H310 8I'll give to you and to your descendants the land to which you have traveled - all the land of Canaan - as an eternal possession. I will be their God."H5414H2233H310H776H4033H776H3667H5769H272H430 9God continued to speak to Abraham, "You and your descendants who follow you are to keep my covenant, that is, you and your descendants after you, throughout their generations.H430H559H85H8104H1285H2233H310H1755 10Here is my covenant that you are to observe, between me and you and your descendants that follow: Every male among you is to be circumcised.H1285H8104H2233H310H2145H4135 11"You are all to be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and this is to be the sign of the covenant between me and you.H5243H1320H6190H226H1285 12Throughout your generations, every male among you who is eight days old is to be circumcised, including the servant born in your house or the one purchased from a foreigner, who is not of your offspring.H8083H3117H1121H4135H2145H1755H3211H1004H4736H3701H1121H5236H2233 13The servant born in your house or the one purchased with money is to be circumcised. My covenant is to remain in your flesh as an eternal covenant.H3211H1004H4736H3701H4135H4135H1285H1320H5769H1285 14Any uncircumcised male who does not have the foreskin of his flesh circumcised, that male will be eliminated from his people because he has broken my covenant."H6189H2145H834H1320H6190H4135H5315H3772H5971H6565H1285 15God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are not to call her Sarai any longer, because her name is to be Sarah.H430H559H85H8297H802H7121H8034H8297H3588H8283H8034 16I will bless her. Furthermore, I will give you a son from her. I will bless her, so that nations, kings, and people will come from her."H1288H5414H1121H1288H1471H4428H5971 17Abraham fell to the ground, laughed, and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a 100 year old man - Can a 90 year old Sarah give birth?"H85H5307H6440H6711H559H3820H3205H3967H8141H1121H8283H8673H8141H1323H3205 18So Abraham responded to God, "If only Ishmael would live in your presence!"H85H559H430H3863H3458H2421H6440 19But God replied, "No, but your wife Sarah will give birth to a son by you, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as an eternal covenant for his descendants after him.H430H559H8283H802H3205H1121H61H7121H8034H3327H6965H1285H5769H1285H2233H310 20And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will bless him, and he will be fruitful. I will multiply him greatly, and he will father 12 tribal leaders. I will make him into a great nation.H3458H8085H1288H6509H7235H3966H3966H6240H8147H5387H3205H5414H1419H1471 21But I will confirm my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will give birth for you at this time next year."H1285H6965H3327H8283H3205H4150H312H8141 22With that, God finished talking to Abraham, and ascended from him.17H3615H1696H430H5927H85 23Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the servants born in his house or purchased with his money - every male among the men of Abraham's household - and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin that very day, just as God had spoken to him.17H85H3947H3458H1121H3211H1004H4736H3701H2145H582H85H1004H4135H1320H6190H6106H3117H430H1696 24Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.H85H8673H8141H1121H8672H4135H1320H6190 25His son Ishmael was 13 years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.H3458H1121H6240H7969H8141H1121H4135H1320H6190 26Both Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on that very day.H6106H3117H85H4135H3458H1121 27Every man born in his household, as well as those who had been purchased with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.1726H582H1004H3211H1004H4736H3701H1121H5236H4135