Thematic Bible
Genesis 17:1 (show verse)
And 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;
Genesis 17:2 (show verse)
and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'
Genesis 17:3 (show verse)
And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,
Genesis 17:4 (show verse)
I -- lo, My covenant is with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;
Genesis 17:5 (show verse)
and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;
Genesis 17:6 (show verse)
and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.
Genesis 17:7 (show verse)
'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;
Genesis 17:8 (show verse)
and 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.'
Genesis 17:9 (show verse)
And God saith unto Abraham, 'And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;
Genesis 17:10 (show verse)
this is My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you is to be circumcised;
Genesis 17:11 (show verse)
and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.
Genesis 17:12 (show verse)
'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;
Genesis 17:13 (show verse)
he 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;
Genesis 17:14 (show verse)
and 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.'
Genesis 17:15 (show verse)
And God saith unto Abraham, 'Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah is her name;
Genesis 17:16 (show verse)
and 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.'
Genesis 17:17 (show verse)
And 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?'
Genesis 17:18 (show verse)
And Abraham saith unto God, 'O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'
Genesis 17:19 (show verse)
and 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.
Genesis 17:20 (show verse)
As 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;
Genesis 17:21 (show verse)
and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'
Genesis 17:22 (show verse)
and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.
Genesis 17:23 (show verse)
And 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.
Genesis 17:24 (show verse)
And Abraham is a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;
Genesis 17:25 (show verse)
and Ishmael his son is a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;
Genesis 17:26 (show verse)
in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;
Genesis 17:27 (show verse)
and 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.