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[1]When Abram was ninety year old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God all sufficient. walk before me, and be thou upright,
[2]And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
[3]Then Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,
[4]Behold, I make my covenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations,
[5]Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham: for a father of many nations have I made thee.
[6]Also I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and will make nations of thee: yea, kings shall proceed of thee.
[7]Moreover I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.
[8]And I will give thee and thy seed after thee the land, wherein thou art a stranger, even all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.
[9]Again God said unto Abraham, Thou also shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
[10]This is my covenant, which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee, Let every man child among you be circumcised:
[11]That is, ye shall circumcise the foreskin of your flesh, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
[12]And every man child of eight days old among you, shall be circumcised in your generations, as well he that is born in thine house, as he that is bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
[13]He that is born in thine house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: so my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
[14]But the uncircumcised man child, in whose flesh the foreskin is not circumcised, even that person shall be cut off from his people, because he hath broken my covenant.
[15]Afterward God said unto Abraham, Sarai thy wife shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
[16]And I will bless her, and will also give thee a son of her, yea, I will bless her and she shall be the mother of nations: kings also of people shall come of her.
[17]Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him, that is an hundred year old? And shall Sarah that is ninety years old bear?
[18]And Abraham said unto God, Oh, that Ishmael might live in thy sight.
[19]Then God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
[20]And as concerning Ishmael, I have heard thee: lo, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly: twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make a great nation of him.
[21]But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee, the next year at this season.
[22]And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
[23]Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all that were born in his house, and all that was bought with his money, that is, every man child among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the foreskin of their flesh in that self same day, as God had commanded him.
[24]Abraham also himself was ninety year old and nine, when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.
[25]And Ishmael his son was thirteen year old, when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised.
[26]The self same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son:
[27]And all the men of his house, both born in his house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
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