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¹And Abram was ninety years and nine years old, and YHWH appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am El Shadday.^* Walk before me and be unblemished, ²and let me place my covenant between me and you, and I’ll make you very, very numerous.” ³And Abram fell on his face, and God spoke with him, saying, ⁴“I: here, my covenant is with you, and you’ll become a father of a mass of nations. ⁵And your name will not be called Abram anymore, but your name will be Abraham,^** because I’ve set you to be a father of a mass of nations. ⁶And I’ll make you very, very fruitful and make you into nations. And kings will come out of you. ⁷And I’ll establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you for their generations as an eternal covenant, to become God to you and to your seed after you. ⁸And I’ll give you and your seed after you the land where you’re residing, all the land of Canaan, as an eternal possession, and I’ll become a God to them.” ⁹And God said to Abraham, “And you: you shall observe my covenant, you and your seed after you through their generations. ⁵⁰This is my covenant that you shall observe between me and you and your seed after you: every male is to be circumcised among you. “And you shall be circumcised at the flesh of your foreskin, and it will become a sign of a covenant between me and you. ⁵¹And at eight days old every male shall be circumcised among you through your generations: homeborn or purchased with money from any foreigner who is not from your seed. ⁵²Your homeborn and the one purchased with your money will be circumcised. And my covenant will become an eternal covenant in your flesh. ⁵³And an uncircumcised—a male the flesh of whose foreskin will not be circumcised—that person will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”

¹⁵And God said to Abraham, “Sarai, your wife: you shall not call her name Sarai, because her name is Sarah. ⁵⁴And I’ll bless her, and I’ll also give you a son from her. And I’ll bless her, and she’ll become nations. Kings of peoples will be from her.”

¹⁷And Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, “Will he be born to someone who’s a hundred years old?! And will Sarah, who’s ninety years old, give birth?!” ⁵⁵And Abraham said to God, “If only Ishmael will live before you.”

¹⁹And God said, “But Sarah, your wife, is giving birth to a son for you. And you shall call his name Isaac. And I’ll establish my covenant with him as an eternal covenant for his seed after him. ⁵⁶And I’ve listened to you about Ishmael. Here, I’ve blessed him, and I’ll make him fruitful and make him very, very numerous. He’ll father twelve chieftains, and I’ll make him into a big nation. ⁵⁷But I’ll establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear for you at this appointed time in the next year.” ⁵⁸And He finished speaking with him, and God went up from Abraham.

²³And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all his homeborn and everyone purchased with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in that very day, as God had spoken with him. ²⁴And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, the flesh of his foreskin, ²⁵and Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised at the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁶In that very day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael, his son; ²⁷and all the men of his house, homeborn and purchased with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.