Genesis 17

1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,

And Abram is a son of ninety-nine years, and YHWH appears to Abram, and says to him, “I [am] God Almighty, habitually walk before Me, and be perfect;

2 And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.

and I give My covenant between Me and you, and multiply you very exceedingly.”

3 And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,

And Abram falls on his face, and God speaks with him, saying,

4 As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

“I—behold, My covenant [is] with you, and you have become father of a multitude of nations;

5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

and your name is no longer called Abram, but your name has been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made you;

6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

and I have made you exceedingly fruitful, and made you become nations, and kings go out from you.

7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

And I have established My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you, throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to become God to you, and to your seed after you;

8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

and I have given to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a continuous possession, and I have become their God.”

9 And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

And God says to Abraham, “And you keep My covenant, you and your seed after you, throughout their generations;

10 And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

this [is] My covenant which you keep between Me and you, and your seed after you: every male of you [is] to be circumcised;

11 In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

and you have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it has become a token of a covenant between Me and you.

12 Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.

And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male throughout your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of your seed;

13 He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.

he is certainly circumcised who [is] born in your house, or bought with your money; and My covenant has become in your flesh a perpetual covenant;

14 And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, indeed, that person has been cut off from his people; My covenant he has broken.”

15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

And God says to Abraham, “Sarai your wife—you do not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [is] her name;

16 And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.

and I have blessed her, and have also given to you a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she has become nations—kings of peoples are from her.”

17 Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?

And Abraham falls on his face, and laughs, and says in his heart, “Is one born to the son of one hundred years? Or does Sarah—daughter of ninety years—bear?”

18 And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!

And Abraham says to God, “O that Ishmael may live before You”;

19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

and God says, “Your wife Sarah is certainly bearing a son to you, and you have called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a perpetual covenant, to his seed after him.

20 As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes does he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;

21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah does bear to you at this appointed time in the next year”;

22 And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.

and He finishes speaking with him, and God goes up from Abraham.

23 And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

And Abraham takes his son Ishmael, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money—every male among the men of Abraham’s house and circumcises the flesh of their foreskin, in this very same day, as God has spoken with him.

24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.

And Abraham [is] a son of ninety-nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

25 And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision.

and his son Ishmael [is] a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

26 Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.

in this very same day Abraham has been circumcised, and his son Ishmael;

27 And all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent circumcision with him.

and all the men of his house—born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger—have been circumcised with him.