Genesis 17

Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him,
“I am God the Almighty. Walk in my ways and be wholehearted and blameless of sin.
I set my covenant between Me and you, and I will make of you very many.”
Abram threw himself down on his face and then God spoke with him saying, “Look, as for Me,
Here, My covenant is with you, so you shall become the father of a crowd of nations.
And no longer shall your name be Abram, but Abraham shall be your new appellation,
For I make you the father of a crowd of nations. And I make you very fertile,
I will make nations of you; and kings will come out of you, not right now, but in a while.
I establish my covenant ‘tween Me and you, and all your seed that comes after you,
As an eternal covenant to be God to you, and to be God to your seed too.

I give both to you and to your offspring the land you have sojourned in, all of Canaan,
To be an everlasting possession. I will be their God.” God said to Abraham,
“As for you, you and your offspring are to keep My covenant through all ages to be
This is My covenant which you must keep, between Me and you, and too your progeny:
Every male among you shall be circumcised. You must circumcise flesh of your foreskin,
So it serves as a sign of the covenant ‘tween Me and you. Through each generation,
At the age of eight days, every male among you must be circumcised. This is a need
For all of your servants, be they house-born or bought from a foreigner not of your seed.
Yes, they all must be circumcised, house-born and purchased, your offspring and not your offspring,
And that way shall My covenant be in your flesh marked as covenant everlasting.
And if any uncircumcised male fails to circumcise from the flesh of his foreskin,
Then that person has broken my covenant, and also shall be cut off from his kin.”
God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall nevermore call her Sarai,
For Sarah is her name. I will bless her, and even give you a son from her, will I.
I will bless her so that she will give rise to nations, kings of people will come from her.”
But then Abraham fell on his face and just laughed, and he said to himself, “Yeah, oh sure.
To a hundred-year-old man, will there be kids born? Or shall Sarah at ninety give birth?”
Abraham said to God, “Oh, if only Ishmael might live in your presence on earth.”
God said, “Nevertheless, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and this shall be his name:
‘Isaac’, meaning ‘he laughs’. I’ll establish my covenant with him as one to maintain
For the ages, and for his offspring after him. As for Ishmael, your words I’m heeding:
Behold, I will make him blessed, and make him bear fruit, and I will make him many, exceeding.
He will father twelve chieftans, and I’ll make a great nation of him, so shall it commence.
But my covenant I will establish with Issac, whom Sarah will bear one year hence.”

When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God then went up, from beside Abraham.
Abraham took Ishmael his son and all slaves that were born in his house, on his land,
And all of those he bought with his money, all males in Abraham’s house, born and bought,
And on that same day he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins, as God told him he ought.
And so Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he had his foreskin’s flesh circumcised,
And Ishmael his son was thirteen when he had the flesh of his foreskin circumcised.
On that very same day two were circumcised, Abraham, and too his son Ishmael,
And all of his household, both house-born and purchased, were then circumcised with him as well.