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Genesis
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English: Webster's Bible |
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Genesis 17 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. |
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And I will bless her, and give thee a son also by her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall proceed from her. |
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Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear? |
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And Abraham said to God, O that Ishmael might live before thee! |
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And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. |
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And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation. |
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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this set time in the next year. |
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And he ceased talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. |
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And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that 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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And Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. |
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And 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 was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. |
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And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him. |
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