Genesis 17

1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty. Walk before me and be blameless.Cross-references: Gen 5:22 · Gen 5:24 · Gen 6:9 · Gen 12:1 · Gen 12:7 · Gen 16:16 · +30 more

2I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”Cross-references: Gen 9:9 · Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 17:4 · Gen 22:17 · +2 more

3Abram fell on his face. God talked with him, saying,Cross-references: Gen 17:17 · Ex 3:6 · Lev 9:23 · Num 14:5 · Num 16:22 · Num 16:45 · +10 more

4“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 16:10 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 25:1 · Gen 32:12 · +7 more

5Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.Cross-references: Gen 17:15 · Gen 32:28 · Num 13:16 · 2Sam 12:25 · Neh 9:7 · Isa 62:2 · +7 more

6I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you. Kings will come out of you.Cross-references: Gen 17:4 · Gen 17:16 · Gen 17:20 · Gen 35:11 · Gen 36:31 · Ezra 4:20 · +1 more

7I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your offspring after you.Cross-references: Gen 15:18 · Gen 26:24 · Gen 28:13 · Ex 3:6 · Ex 3:15 · Ex 6:4 · +17 more

8I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”Cross-references: Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 13:17 · Gen 15:7 · Gen 23:4 · Gen 28:4 · +18 more

9God said to Abraham, “As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations.Cross-references: Ps 25:10 · Ps 103:18 · Isa 56:4

10This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.Cross-references: Gen 17:11 · Gen 34:15 · Ex 4:25 · Ex 12:48 · Deut 10:16 · Deut 30:6 · +18 more

11You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.Cross-references: Ex 4:25 · Ex 12:48 · Deut 10:16 · Josh 5:3 · 1Sam 18:25 · 2Sam 3:14 · +2 more

12He who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.Cross-references: Gen 17:23 · Gen 21:4 · Ex 12:48 · Lev 12:3 · Luke 1:59 · Luke 2:21 · +4 more

13He who is born in your house, and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.Cross-references: Gen 14:14 · Gen 15:3 · Gen 37:27 · Gen 37:36 · Gen 39:1 · Ex 12:44 · +6 more

14The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”Cross-references: Ex 4:24 · Ex 12:15 · Ex 12:19 · Ex 30:33 · Ex 30:38 · Lev 7:20 · +13 more

15God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah.Cross-references: Gen 17:5 · Gen 32:28 · 2Sam 12:25

16I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”Cross-references: Gen 1:28 · Gen 12:2 · Gen 17:6 · Gen 18:10 · Gen 24:60 · Gen 35:11 · +4 more

17Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”Cross-references: Gen 17:3 · Gen 18:12 · Gen 21:6 · Lev 9:24 · Num 14:5 · Num 16:22 · +15 more

18Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”Cross-references: Gen 4:12 · Gen 4:14 · Ps 4:6 · Ps 41:12 · Isa 59:2 · Jer 32:39 · +1 more

19God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.Cross-references: Gen 17:21 · Gen 18:10 · Gen 21:2 · Gen 21:6 · Gen 26:3 · 2Ki 4:16 · +3 more

20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.Cross-references: Gen 16:10 · Gen 21:13 · Gen 21:18 · Gen 25:12

21But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”Cross-references: Gen 18:10 · Gen 21:2 · Gen 21:10 · Gen 26:2 · Gen 46:1 · Gen 48:15 · +10 more

22When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.Cross-references: Gen 17:3 · Gen 18:33 · Gen 35:9 · Ex 20:22 · Num 12:6 · Deut 5:4 · +4 more

23Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money: every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the same day, as God had said to him.Cross-references: Gen 17:10 · Gen 17:26 · Gen 18:19 · Gen 34:24 · Josh 5:2 · Ps 119:60 · +8 more

24Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.Cross-references: Gen 12:4 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 17:17 · Rom 4:11 · Rom 4:19

25Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

26In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.Cross-references: Gen 12:4 · Gen 22:3 · Ps 119:60

27All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.Cross-references: Gen 18:19