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Genesis 17 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Gen 17:1

Gen 17:1And 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;

Gen 17:2

Gen 17:2and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'

Gen 17:3

Gen 17:3And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,

Gen 17:4

Gen 17:4'I -- lo, My covenant is with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

Gen 17:5

Gen 17:5and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

Gen 17:6

Gen 17:6and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

Gen 17:7

Gen 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;

Gen 17:8

Gen 17:8and 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.'

Gen 17:9

Gen 17:9And God saith unto Abraham, 'And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

Gen 17:10

Gen 17:10this is My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you is to be circumcised;

Gen 17:11

Gen 17:11and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.

Gen 17:12

Gen 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;

Gen 17:13

Gen 17:13he 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;

Gen 17:14

Gen 17:14and 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.'

Gen 17:15

Gen 17:15And God saith unto Abraham, 'Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah is her name;

Gen 17:16

Gen 17:16and 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.'

Gen 17:17

Gen 17:17And 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?'

Gen 17:18

Gen 17:18And Abraham saith unto God, 'O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

Gen 17:19

Gen 17:19and 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.

Gen 17:20

Gen 17:20As 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;

Gen 17:21

Gen 17:21and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'

Gen 17:22

Gen 17:22and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.

Gen 17:23

Gen 17:23And 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.

Gen 17:24

Gen 17:24And Abraham is a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

Gen 17:25

Gen 17:25and Ishmael his son is a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

Gen 17:26

Gen 17:26in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

Gen 17:27

Gen 17:27and 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.
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