Genesis Chapter 17 Young's Literal Translation

Genesis 17:1

And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I `am' God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;

Genesis 17:2

and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'

Genesis 17:3

And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,

Genesis 17:4

`I -- lo, My covenant `is' with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

Genesis 17:5

and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

Genesis 17:6

and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

Genesis 17:7

`And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

Genesis 17:8

and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

Genesis 17:9

And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

Genesis 17:10

this `is' My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you `is' to be circumcised;

Genesis 17:11

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

Genesis 17:12

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

Genesis 17:13

he is certainly circumcised who `is' born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;

Genesis 17:14

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

Genesis 17:15

And God saith unto Abraham, `Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah `is' her name;

Genesis 17:16

and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.'

Genesis 17:17

And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'

Genesis 17:18

And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

Genesis 17:19

and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

Genesis 17:20

As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;

Genesis 17:21

and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'

Genesis 17:22

and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:23

And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money -- every male among the men of Abraham's house -- and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.

Genesis 17:24

And Abraham `is' a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

Genesis 17:25

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

Genesis 17:26

in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

Genesis 17:27

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.