Genesis 17

1And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

1And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I <FI>am<Fi> God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;

2And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

2and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'

3Abram fell flat on his face.

3And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,

4And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

4`I--lo, My covenant <FI>is<Fi> with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

5Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.

5and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

6And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

6and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

7`And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

8And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

8and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

9Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

9And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

10This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male-kind of you shall be circumcised.

10this <FI>is<Fi> My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you <FI>is<Fi> to be circumcised;

11And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.

11and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.

12An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every manchild in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock:

12`And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed;

13And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

13he is certainly circumcised who <FI>is<Fi> born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;

14The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

14and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'

15God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

15And God saith unto Abraham, `Sarai thy wife--thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah <FI>is<Fi> her name;

16And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

16and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations--kings of peoples are from her.'

17Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

17And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah--daughter of ninety years--bear?'

18And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

18And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

19And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

19and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

20And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

20As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;

21But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

21and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'

22And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

22and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.

23And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.

23And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money--every male among the men of Abraham's house--and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.

24Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

24And Abraham <FI>is<Fi> a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

25And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.

25and Ishmael his son <FI>is<Fi> a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

26The self-same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.

26in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

27And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers, were circumcised with him.

27and all the men of his house--born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger--have been circumcised with him.