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Genesis
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English: World English Bible |
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Genesis 17 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. |
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I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her." |
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Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?" |
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Abraham said to God, "Oh that Ishmael might live before you!" |
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God said, "No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him. |
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As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. |
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But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year." |
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When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. |
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Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money; every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him. |
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Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. |
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Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. |
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In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised. |
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All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him. |
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