Genesis 17 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision

(Exo 12:43—13:2 )

Gen 17:1And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am the Almighty God: walk before my face, and be perfect.

Gen 17:2

Gen 17:2And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.

Gen 17:3

Gen 17:3And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,

Gen 17:4

Gen 17:4It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

Gen 17:5

Gen 17:5And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

Gen 17:6

Gen 17:6And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Gen 17:7

Gen 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Gen 17:8

Gen 17:8And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them.

Gen 17:9

Gen 17:9And God said to Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Gen 17:10

Gen 17:10This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee -- that every male among you be circumcised.

Gen 17:11

Gen 17:11And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and that shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

Gen 17:12

Gen 17:12And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you -- he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.

Gen 17:13

Gen 17:13He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy money, must be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

Gen 17:14

Gen 17:14And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples: he hath broken my covenant.

Gen 17:15

Gen 17:15And God said to Abraham, As to Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

Gen 17:16

Gen 17:16And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her.

Gen 17:17

Gen 17:17And Abraham fell on 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?

Gen 17:18

Gen 17:18And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

Gen 17:19

Gen 17:19And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

Gen 17:20

Gen 17:20And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

Gen 17:21

Gen 17:21But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.

Gen 17:22

Gen 17:22And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.

Gen 17:23

Gen 17:23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money -- every male among the people of Abraham's house -- and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.

Gen 17:24

Gen 17:24And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Gen 17:25

Gen 17:25And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Gen 17:26

Gen 17:26In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

Gen 17:27

Gen 17:27and all the men of his house, born in his house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Genesis 17 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision

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