Genesis 17

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to him and said, 'I am El Shaddai. Live inmy presence, be perfect,	1 And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.
2 and I shal grant a covenant between myself and you, and make you very numerous.'	2 And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
3 And Abram bowed to the ground. God spoke to him as follows,	3 Abram tell flat on his face.
4 'For my part, this is my covenant with you: you wil become the father of many nations.	4 And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father. of many nations.
5 And you are no longer to be cal ed Abram; your name is to be Abraham, for I am making you father ofmany nations.	5 Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.
6 I shal make you exceedingly fertile. I shall make you into nations, and your issue wil be kings.	6 And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7 And I shal maintain my covenant between myself and you, and your descendants after you,generation after generation, as a covenant in perpetuity, to be your God and the God of your descendants afteryou.	7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy sad after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And to you and to your descendants after you, I shal give the country where you are now immigrants,the entire land of Canaan, to own in perpetuity. And I shal be their God.'	8 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.
9 God further said to Abraham, 'You for your part must keep my covenant, you and your descendantsafter you, generation after generation.	9 Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
10 This is my covenant which you must keep between myself and you, and your descendants after you:every one of your males must be circumcised.	10 This is my covenant which you shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised:
11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that wil be the sign of the covenant betweenmyself and you.	11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a h sign of the covenant between me and you.
12 As soon as he is eight days old, every one of your males, generation after generation, must becircumcised, including slaves born within the household or bought from a foreigner not of your descent.	12 An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock:
13 Whether born within the household or bought, they must be circumcised. My covenant must bemarked in your flesh as a covenant in perpetuity.	13 And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.
14 The uncircumcised male, whose foreskin has not been circumcised -- that person must be cut offfrom his people: he has broken my covenant.'	14 The male, whose dash of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.
15 Furthermore God said to Abraham, 'As regards your wife Sarai, you must not cal her Sarai, butSarah.	15 God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.
16 I shal bless her and moreover give you a son by her. I shal bless her and she will become nations:kings of peoples wil issue from her.'	16 And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shell become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.
17 Abraham bowed to the ground, and he laughed, thinking to himself, 'Is a child to be born to a manone hundred years old, and wil Sarah have a child at the age of ninety?'	17 Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?
18 Abraham said to God, 'May Ishmael live in your presence! That wil be enough!'	18 And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.
19 But God replied, 'Yes, your wife Sarah will bear you a son whom you must name Isaac. And I shalmaintain my covenant with him, a covenant in perpetuity, to be his God and the God of his descendants afterhim.	19 And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.
20 For Ishmael too I grant you your request. I hereby bless him and wil make him fruitful andexceedingly numerous. He wil be the father of twelve princes, and I shal make him into a great nation.	20 And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
21 But my covenant I shall maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah wil bear you at this time next year.'	21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.
22 When he had finished speaking to Abraham, God went up from him.	22 And when he had left oil speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.
23 Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, al the slaves born in his household or whom he had bought, inshort al the males among the people of Abraham's household, and circumcised their foreskins that same day,as God had said to him.	23 And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.
24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when his foreskin was circumcised.	24 Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.
25 Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when his foreskin was circumcised.	25 And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.
26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day,	26 dummy verses inserted by amos
27 and al the men of his household, those born in the household and those bought from foreigners,were circumcised with him.	27 And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers were circumcised with him.
	28 The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.