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Genesis 17 📜 📕 ↷
Abraham to Father Many Nations
1 AND after that he began to be ninety and nine years old, our Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him: I am the God almighty: walk before me, and be perfect.📜💬📚
2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.📜💬📚
3 Abram fell flat on his face.📜💬📚
4 And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many Nations.📜💬📚
5 Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram; but thou shalt be called Abraham: because a father of many Nations I have made thee.📜💬📚
6 And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make thee into Nations, and kings shall come forth of thee.📜💬📚
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations by a perpetual covenant: to be thy God, and thy seeds after thee.📜💬📚
8 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed the land of thy peregrination, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.📜💬📚
Covenant of Circumcision
9 Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.📜💬📚
10 This 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:📜💬📚
11 and you shall circumcise the flesh of your prepuce, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.📜💬📚
12 An infant of eight days shall be circumcised among you, all male-kind in your generations: as well the homebred shall be circumcised, as the bought servant of whosoever he is, not of your stock:📜💬📚
13 and my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.📜💬📚
14 The male, whose flesh of his prepuce shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.📜💬📚
15 God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.📜💬📚
16 And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall be into Nations, and kings of peoples shall spring of him.📜💬📚
17 Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall trowest thou to him that is an hundred year old a son be born? And Sara that is ninety years old shall she bear?📜💬📚
18 And he said to God: I would that Ismael may live before thee.📜💬📚
19 And 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 to him for a perpetual covenant, and to his seed after him.📜💬📚
20 Concerning Ismael also I have heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase and multiply him exceedingly: twelve Dukes shall he beget, and I will make him into a great Nation.📜💬📚
21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time an other year.📜💬📚
22 And when he had left off speaking with him, God ascended from Abraham.📜💬📚
23 And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all the homebred of his house: and all whom he had bought, all the males of all the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their prepuce forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.📜💬📚
24 Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his prepuce.📜💬📚
25 And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.📜💬📚
26 The self-same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.📜💬📚
27 And all the men of his house, as well the homebred as the bought servants and strangers were circumcised together.📜💬📚
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