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Genesis 17 - King James 1611 bible

Genesis 17

¹And when Abram was ninetie yeres old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said vnto him, I am the almightie God, walke before me, and be thou perfect.

²And I wil make my couenant betweene me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

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

⁴As for me, behold, my couenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

⁵Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall bee Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.

⁶And I will make thee exceeding fruitfull, and I will make nations of thee, and Kings shall come out of thee.

⁷And I will establish my couenant betweene me and thee, and thy seede after thee, in their generations for an euerlasting couenant, to bee a God vnto thee, and to thy seed after thee.

⁸And I will giue vnto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an euerlasting possession, and I will be their God.

⁹And God said vnto Abraham, Thou shalt keepe my couenant therefore, thou, and thy seede after thee, in their generations.

¹⁰This is my couenant, which yee shall keepe betweene me and you, and thy seed after thee: euery man child among you shall be circumcised.

¹¹And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskinne; and it shal be a token of the couenant betwixt me and you.

¹²And he that is eight dayes olde, shalbe circumcised among you, euery man child in your generations, he that is borne in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

¹³He that is borne in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my couenant shall be in your flesh, for an euerlasting couenant.

¹⁴And the vncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskinne is not circumcised, that soule shall be cut off from his people: hee hath broken my couenant.

¹⁵And God said vnto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.

¹⁶And I will blesse her, and giue thee a sonne also of her: yea I wil blesse her, and she shalbe a mother of nations; Kings of people shall be of her.

¹⁷Then Abraham fell vpon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be borne vnto him that is an hundred yeeres old? and shal Sarah that is ninetie yeeres old, beare?

¹⁸And Abraham said vnto God, O that Ishmael might liue before thee.

¹⁹And God said, Sarah thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my couenant with him, for an euerlasting couenant, and with his seed after him.

²⁰And as for Ishmael, I haue heard thee: behold, I haue blessed him, and will make him fruitfull, and will multiplie him exceedingly: Twelue princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

²¹But my couenant wil I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall beare vnto thee, at this set time, in the next yeere.

²²And he left off talking with him, and God went vp from Abraham.

²³And Abraham tooke Ishmael his sonne, and all that were borne in his house, and all that were bought with his money, euery male, among the men of Abrahams house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskinne, in the selfesame day, as God had said vnto him.

²⁴And Abraham was ninety yeeres old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskinne.

²⁵And Ishmael his sonne was thirteene yeeres old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskinne.

²⁶In the selfe same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his sonne.

²⁷And all the men of his house, borne in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.