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The Book of Genesis
Chapter 17
The Covenant of circumcision.
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And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect. |
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And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly. |
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Abram fell flat on his face. |
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And God said to him: I am, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. |
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Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations. |
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And I will make thee increase exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. |
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And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee. |
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And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God. |
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Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations. |
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This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male-kind of you shall be circumcised. |
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And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you. |
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An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every manchild in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock: |
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And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant. |
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The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant. |
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God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara. |
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And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him. |
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Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth? |
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And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee. |
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And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him. |
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And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation. |
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But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year. |
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And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham. |
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And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him. |
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Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin. |
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And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision. |
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The self-same day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son. |
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And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers, were circumcised with him. |
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