| International Standard Version | New Living Translation |
| 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 El-Shaddai—‘God Almighty.’ Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. |
| 2I'll establish my covenant between me and you, and I'll greatly increase your numbers." | 2I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants.” |
| 3Then Abram fell to the ground as God continued speaking to him. | 3At this, Abram fell face down on the ground. Then God said to him, |
| 4"Look, I've made a covenant with you. You will be the father of many nations. | 4“This is my covenant with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of 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. | 5What’s more, I am changing your name. It will no longer be Abram. Instead, you will be called Abraham, for you will be the 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 extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become many nations, and kings will be among them! |
| 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. | 7“I will confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you, from generation to generation. This is the everlasting covenant: I will always 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 I will give the entire land of Canaan, where you now live as a foreigner, to you and your descendants. It will be their possession forever, and I will be their God.” The Mark of the Covenant |
| 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. | 9Then God said to Abraham, “Your responsibility is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all your descendants have this continual responsibility. |
| 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 the covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Each 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 must cut off the flesh of your foreskin as 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. | 12From generation to generation, every male child must be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth. This applies not only to members of your family but also to the servants born in your household and the foreign-born servants whom you have purchased. |
| 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. | 13All must be circumcised. Your bodies will bear the mark of my 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." | 14Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.” Sarai Is Named Sarah |
| 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, “Regarding Sarai, your wife—her name will no longer be Sarai. From now on her name will 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 give you a son from her! Yes, I will bless her richly, and she will become the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will be among her descendants.” |
| 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?" | 17Then Abraham bowed down to the ground, but he laughed to himself in disbelief. “How could I become a father at the age of 100?” he thought. “And how can Sarah have a baby when she is ninety years old?” |
| 18So Abraham responded to God, "If only Ishmael would live in constant awareness that you're always with him!" | 18So Abraham said to God, “May Ishmael live under your special 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, “No—Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a son for you. You will name him Isaac, and I will confirm my covenant with him and his descendants as an everlasting covenant. |
| 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 will bless him also, just as you have asked. I will make him extremely fruitful and multiply his descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him 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 my covenant will be confirmed with Isaac, who will be born to you and Sarah about this time next year.” |
| 22With that, God finished talking to Abraham, and ascended, leaving him. | 22When God had finished speaking, he left Abraham. |
| 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 every male in his household, including those born there and those he had bought. Then he circumcised them, cutting off their foreskins, just as God had told him. |
| 24Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised, | 24Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, |
| 25and his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised. | 25and Ishmael, his son, was thirteen. |
| 26Both Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on that very day. | 26Both Abraham and his son, Ishmael, were circumcised on that 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. | 27along with all the other men and boys of the household, whether they were born there or bought as servants. All were circumcised with him. |
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