Genesis 17

1 When Abram was 99 years old, Yahweh appeared to him again and said to him, “I am God Almighty. I want you to live in a way that I will regard you as someone that cannot be criticized.

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 If you do that, I will make an agreement with you in which I will promise to enable you to have very many descendants.” [MTY]

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

3 Abram prostrated himself with his face on the ground. Then God said to him,

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

4 “Listen to this agreement that I am making with you: People of many nations will be your descendants.

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

5 And no longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham, [which means ‘father of many nations,’] because the people of many nations will descend from you.

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 enable you to have very many descendants, and I will cause them to become great nations/people-groups, and some of your descendants will become kings.

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

7 I will make this agreement between me and you and your descendants. It will be an everlasting agreement to be in effect for many generations. This agreement is that I will be your God, and the God of your descendants.

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 I will give to you and to your descendants the land through which you are now traveling, all of the Canaan region. It will be an everlasting possession for your descendants, and I will be the God that they [will worship].”

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 Then God said to Abraham, “Now you must obey [your part of] the agreement that I am making with you, and your descendants must also obey it, for all generations.

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

10 This is the agreement that I am making, between myself and you and all your descendants: Every male among you must be circumcised.

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 (Cutting the foreskins of/Circumcising) them will be the sign [that you have accepted] the agreement I am making with 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 child among you must be circumcised when he is eight days old, in all future generations. That includes baby boys in your household or those born from slaves that have been bought, and baby boys of foreigners who live among you but do not belong to your household.

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 It does not matter whether their parents are members of your household or slaves that have been bought; they must all be circumcised. Your bodies will have this mark to show [you have accepted] this everlasting agreement I am making.

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 You must expel from your community any male who has not been circumcised, because [by not being circumcised] that person has disobeyed my agreement.”

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 God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai, your wife, you must not call her Sarai any longer. [Since I changed your name, I will change her name also]. Her name will now be Sarah.

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

16 I will bless her, and she will surely give birth to a son for you. And I will bless her so much that she will be the ancestor of people of many nations. Kings of some people-groups will be descended from her.”

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 Abraham prostrated himself with his face on the ground [to show respect to God]. But then he laughed as he said to himself, “Can a man who is a 100 years old become a father of a son? And since Sarah is 90 years old, how can she bear a child?”

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 Then Abraham said to God, “Perhaps you will let Ishmael receive your blessing [and inherit all I possess].”

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

19 Then God replied, “[No!] Your wife Sarah will bear a son for you. You must name him Isaac. I will establish my agreement with him, one which will be an everlasting agreement for him and his descendants.

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 heard what you asked me to do for him. I will bless him so that he also will have many descendants. Among his descendants will be rulers of twelve nations. And I will cause his [descendants] [MTY] to also become 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 Isaac, the son whom Sarah will give birth to at this time next year, is the one with whom I will establish my agreement.”

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

22 When God finished talking to Abraham, God disappeared from his sight.

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

23 On that same day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the males that were in his household, including the sons of all the slaves he had bought, and circumcised them. He cut off their foreskins, just as God told him to do.

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 99 years old when (he was circumcised/someone circumcised him),

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

25 and Ishmael was thirteen years old when Abraham circumcised him.

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

26 On that very day Abraham and his son, Ishmael were circumcised.

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

27 And all the males in his household, the ones who had been born there and those who had been bought from foreigners, were also circumcised.

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.