41 lines
3.3 KiB
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41 lines
3.3 KiB
Markdown
Covenant Circumcision
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# Chapter 17
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1. When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, "I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and be blameless.
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2. I will set up my covenant between me and you, and I will multiply you greatly."
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3. Then Abram fell facedown and God spoke with him:
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4. "As for me, here is my covenant with you: You will become the father of many nations.
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5. Your name will no longer be Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I will make you the father of many nations.
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6. I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you.
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7. I will confirm my covenant that is between me and you and your future offspring throughout their generations. It is a permanent covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.
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8. And to you and your future offspring I will give the land where you are residing--all the land of Canaan--as a permanent possession, and I will be their God."
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9. God also said to Abraham, "As for you, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations are to keep my covenant.
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10. This is my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you, which you are to keep: Every one of your males must be circumcised.
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11. You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and you.
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12. Throughout your generations, every male among you is to be circumcised at eight days old--every male born in your household or purchased from any foreigner and not your offspring.
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13. Whether born in your household or purchased, he must be circumcised. My covenant will be marked in your flesh as a permanent covenant.
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14. If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."
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15. God said to Abraham, "As for your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai, for Sarah will be her name.
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16. I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will produce nations; kings of peoples will come from her."
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17. Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?"
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18. So Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael were acceptable to you!"
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19. But God said, "No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a permanent covenant for his future offspring.
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20. As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will certainly bless him; I will make him fruitful and will multiply him greatly. He will father twelve tribal leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.
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21. But I will confirm my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year."
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22. When he finished talking with him, God withdrew from Abraham.
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23. So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased--every male among the members of Abraham's household--and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.
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24. Abraham was ninety-nine years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised,
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25. and his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.
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26. On that very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.
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27. And all the men of his household--whether born in his household or purchased from a foreigner--were circumcised with him.
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