Genesis 17

Revised Geneva Translation

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I am God, all sufficient. Walk before me and be upright.

² “And I will make My Covenant between Me and you; and I will multiply you exceedingly.”

³ Then Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,

⁴ “Behold, I make My Covenant with you; and you shall be a father of many nations.

⁵ “Nor shall your name be called Abram anymore; but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

⁶ “Also, I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and will make nations from you. Indeed, kings shall proceed from you.

⁷ “Moreover, I will establish My Covenant between Me and you and your seed after you (in their generations, for an everlasting Covenant), to be God to you and to your seed after you.

⁸ “And I will give you the land wherein you are a stranger, to you and your seed after you, all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

⁹ Again, God said to Abraham, “You also shall keep My Covenant, you and your seed after you, in their generations.

¹⁰ “This is My Covenant which you shall keep between Me and you and your seed after you: Let every male child among you be circumcised.

¹¹ “That is, you shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh; and it shall be a sign of the Covenant between Me and you.

¹² “And every male child among you of eight days old shall be circumcised in your generations, as well he who is born in your house (such as he who was bought with money from any stranger; who is not of your seed).

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

¹⁴ “But the uncircumcised child (in whose flesh the foreskin is not circumcised), even that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken My Covenant.”

¹⁵ Afterward, God said to Abraham, “Sarai, your wife, you shall not call ‘Sarai’; but ‘Sarah’ shall be her name.

¹⁶ “And I will bless her and will also give you a son by her. Indeed, I will bless her; and she shall be the mother of nations. Kings of people shall come from her.”

¹⁷ Then, Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to him who is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?”

¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live in Your sight.”

¹⁹ Then God said, “Sarah, your wife, shall indeed bear you a son. And you shall call his name ‘Isaac’; and I will establish My Covenant with him and with his seed after him, for an everlasting Covenant.

²⁰ “And concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Lo, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes; and I will make a great nation from him.

²¹ “But I will establish My Covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you next year at this season.”

²² And he ceased talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.

²³ Then, Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all who were born in his house, and all that was bought with his money (that is, every male child among the men of Abraham’s house) and he circumcised the foreskin of their flesh on that same day, as God had commanded him.

²⁴ And Abraham himself was ninety-nine years old when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.

²⁵ And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.

²⁶ Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised the same day.

²⁷ And all the men of his house (born in his house and bought from a stranger, with money) were circumcised with him.