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¹Forsooth after that Abram began to be of ninety years and nine, the Lord appeared to him, and said to him, I am Almighty God; go thou before me, and be thou perfect;

²and I shall set my covenant of peace betwixt me and thee; and I shall multiply thee full greatly.

³And Abram felled down low on his face. And God said to him,

⁴I am, and my covenant of peace is with thee, and thou shalt be the father of many folks;

⁵and thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thou shalt be called Abraham, for I have made thee the father of many folks;

⁶and I shall make thee to wax full greatly, and I shall set thee in folks, and kings shall go out of thee;

⁷and I shall make my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee, in their generations, by everlasting bond of peace, that I be thy God, and of thy seed after thee;

⁸and I shall give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy pilgrimage, all the land of Canaan, into everlasting possession, and I shall be the God of them.

⁹God said again to Abraham, And therefore thou shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee, in their generations.

¹⁰This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, betwixt me and you, and thy seed after thee; each male kind of you shall be circumcised,

¹¹and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your man’s rod, that it be into a sign of bond of peace betwixt me and you.

¹²A young child of eight days shall be circumcised in you, all male kind in your generations, as well a born servant of your household, as a servant bought, shall be circumcised,

¹³and whoever is of your kindred, he shall be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh into everlasting bond of peace.

¹⁴A man whose flesh of his rod shall not be circumcised, that man shall be done away from his people; for he made void my covenant.

¹⁵Also God said to Abraham, Thou shalt not call Sarai, thy wife, Sarai, but Sarah;

¹⁶and I shall bless her, and of her I shall give to thee a son, whom I shall bless, and he shall be into nations, and kings of peoples shall be born of him.

¹⁷Abraham felled down on his face, and laughed in his heart, and said, Guessest thou, whether a child shall be born to a man of an hundred years, and Sarah of ninety years shall bear a child?

¹⁸And he said to the Lord, I would that Ishmael might live before thee.

¹⁹And the Lord said to Abraham, Sarah, thy wife, shall bear a son to thee, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I shall make my covenant with him into everlasting bond of peace, and to his seed after him;

²⁰also on Ishmael I have heard thee, lo! I shall bless him, and I shall increase him, and I shall multiply him greatly; he shall engender twelve dukes, and I shall make him into a great folk.

²¹Forsooth I shall make my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall child to thee in this time in the tother year.

²²And when the word of the speaker with him was ended, God ascended from Abraham.

²³Forsooth Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all the born servants of his house, and all which he had bought, all the males of all men of his house, and circumcised the flesh of their rods, anon in that day, as the Lord commanded to him.

²⁴Abraham was of ninety years and nine when he circumcised the flesh of his rod,

²⁵and Ishmael, his son, had filled thirteen years in the time of his circumcision.

²⁶Abraham was circumcised in the same day, and Ishmael his son,

²⁷and all the men of his house, as well born servants, as those bought and aliens, were circumcised together.