Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, ^athe LORD appeared to Abram and said to him,“I am ¹God ^bAlmighty;Walk before Me, and be ^2cblameless.

3 Abram ^afell on his face, and God talked with him, saying,

6 I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and ^akings will come from you. 7 I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your ¹descendants after you throughout their generations as an ^aeverlasting covenant, ^bto be God to you and ^cto your ²descendants after you. 8 And ^aI will give to you and to your ¹descendants after you the land where you live as a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and ^bI will be their God.”

9 God said further to Abraham, “Now as for you, ^ayou shall keep My covenant, you and your ¹descendants after you throughout their generations. 10 ^aThis is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your ¹descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ^ayou shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you. 12 And every male among you who is ^aeight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, including a slave who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your ¹descendants. 13 A slave who is born in your house or ^awho is bought with your money shall certainly be circumcised; so My covenant shall be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant. 14 But as for an uncircumcised male, one who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be ^acut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, you shall not call her by the name ¹Sarai, but ²Sarah shall be her name. 16 I will bless her, and indeed I will give you ^aa son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; ^bkings of peoples will ¹come from her.” 17 Then Abraham ^afell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to a man a hundred years old? And ^bwill Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth to a child?” 18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You!” 19 But God said, “No, but your wife Sarah will bear you ^aa son, and you shall name him ¹Isaac; and ^bI will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his ²descendants after him. 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and ^amake him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly. ^bHe shall father twelve princes, and I will make him into a ^cgreat nation. 21 But I will establish My covenant with ^aIsaac, whom ^bSarah will bear to you at this season next year.” 22 When He finished talking with him, ^aGod went up from Abraham.

23 Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all the slaves who were ^aborn in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on this very same day, ^bas God had said to him. 24 Now Abraham was ninety-nine years old when ^ahe was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And his son ^aIshmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 On this very same day Abraham was circumcised, as well as his son Ishmael. 27 And all the men of his household, those who were ^aborn in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.