17:1  Now when Abram reached ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, "I proclaim myself as God Almighty;Walk before Me, and remain blameless.

17:2  "I will establish My covenant between Me and you, And I will multiply you exceedingly."

17:3  Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

17:4  "As for Me, behold, My covenant dwells with you, And people will know you as the father of a multitude of nations.

17:5  "No longer shall people call your name Abram, But I shall call your name Abraham; For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.

17:6  "I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you.

17:7  "I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to become God to you and to your descendants after you.

17:8  "I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will rule as their God."

17:9  God said further to Abraham, "Now as for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

17:10  "This characterizes My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: every male among you shall undergo circumcision.

17:11  "And you shall undergo circumcision in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall signify the covenant between Me and you.

17:12  "And every male among you who has turned eight days old shall undergo circumcision throughout your generations, a servant whose birth took place in the house or who has become bought with money from any foreigner, who does not come from your descendants.

17:13  "A servant whose birth occurred in your house or who has become bought with your money shall surely undergo circumcision; thus shall My covenant remain in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

17:14  "But an uncircumcised male who has not undergone circumcision in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall become separated from his people; he has broken My covenant."

17:15  Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but you shall call her Sarah .

17:16  "I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her Then I will bless her, and people shall acknowledge her as a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."

17:17  Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child become born to a man one hundred years old? And will Sarah, who has reached ninety years old, bear a child?"

17:18  And Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before You!"

17:19  But God said, "No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

17:20  "As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

17:21  "But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next year."

17:22  When He finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

17:23  Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants whose births had occurred in his house and all who they had bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, as God had said to him.

17:24  Now Abraham reached ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision in the flesh of his foreskin.

17:25  And Ishmael his son reached thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision in the flesh of his foreskin.

17:26  In the very same day Abraham became circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

17:27  All the men of his household, who had his birth in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, had become circumcised with him.