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| 1When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and announced, "I am God Almighty. Live in constant awareness that I'm always with you, and be blameless. | 1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless. |
| 2I'll establish my covenant between me and you, and I'll greatly increase your numbers." | 2I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.” |
| 3Then Abram fell to the ground as God continued speaking to him. | 3Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, |
| 4"Look, I've made a covenant with you. You will be the father of many nations. | 4“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. |
| 5Your name is no longer to be Abram. Instead your name will be Abraham, since I'll make you the father of many nations. | 5No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. |
| 6I'm going to cause you to have many descendants, and I'll bring nations from you. Kings will come from you. | 6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. |
| 7I'm establishing my covenant between me and you, and with your descendants who come after you, generation after generation, as an eternal covenant, to be your God and your descendants' God after you. | 7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. |
| 8I'll give to you and to your descendants the land to which you have traveled—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession. I will be their God." | 8And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.” |
| 9God continued to speak to Abraham, "You and your descendants who are born in the future are to keep my covenant—that is, you and your descendants, generation after generation. | 9God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you. |
| 10Here is my covenant that you are to observe, between me and you and your descendants: Every male among you is to be circumcised. | 10This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised. |
| 11You are all to be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and this is to be the sign of the covenant between me and you. | 11You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. |
| 12Generation after generation, every male among you is to be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, including the servant born in your house or the one purchased from a foreigner, who is not of your offspring. | 12Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring. |
| 13The servant born in your house or the one purchased with money is to be circumcised. My covenant is to remain in your flesh as an eternal covenant. | 13Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant. |
| 14Any uncircumcised male who does not have the foreskin of his flesh circumcised on the eighth day after his birth is to be eliminated from his people because he has broken my covenant." | 14But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.” |
| 15God told Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are not to call her Sarai any longer, because her name is to be Sarah. | 15Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah. |
| 16I will bless her. Furthermore, I will give you a son from her. I will bless her, so that nations, kings, and people will come from her." | 16And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.” |
| 17Abraham fell to the ground, laughed, and told himself, "Can a child be born to a 100-year-old man? Can a 90-year-old Sarah give birth?" | 17Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?” |
| 18So Abraham responded to God, "If only Ishmael would live in constant awareness that you're always with him!" | 18And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!” |
| 19But God replied, "No, but your wife Sarah will give birth to your son, and you are to name him Isaac. I'll confirm my covenant with him as an eternal covenant for his descendants. | 19But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. |
| 20And as for Ishmael, I've heard you. I'll bless him, and he'll have many descendants. I will multiply him greatly, he'll father twelve tribal leaders, and I'll cause his descendants to become a great nation. | 20As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. |
| 21Now as to Isaac, I'll confirm my covenant with him, to whom Sarah will give birth as your son at this time next year." | 21But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.” |
| 22With that, God finished talking to Abraham, and ascended, leaving him. | 22When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him. |
| 23Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the servants born in his house or purchased with his money—every male among the men of his household—and circumcised them that very day, just as God had spoken to him. | 23On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him. |
| 24Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised, | 24So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, |
| 25and his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised. | 25and his son Ishmael was thirteen; |
| 26Both Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on that very day. | 26Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day. |
| 27Every man born in his household—as well as those who had been purchased with money from a foreigner—was circumcised with him. | 27And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him. |
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