Genesis 17

NEW JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to him and said, 'I am El Shaddai. Live inmy presence, be perfect,	1 In truth, after he began to be ninety-nine years of age, the Lord appeared to him. And he said to him: “I am the Almighty God. Walk in my sight and become complete.
2 and I shal grant a covenant between myself and you, and make you very numerous.'	2 And I will set my covenant between me and you. And I will multiply you very exceedingly.”
3 And Abram bowed to the ground. God spoke to him as follows,	3 Abram fell prone 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 you, and you will be the 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 No longer will your name be called Abram. But you will be called Abraham, for I have established you as the 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 cause you to increase very greatly, and I will set you among the nations, and kings will come forth from you.
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 you, and with your offspring after you in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
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 you and to your offspring, the land of your sojourn, all the land of Canaan, as an eternal 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 you therefore shall keep my covenant, and your offspring after you 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 your offspring after you: All the males among 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, so that it may be a 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 will be circumcised among you, every male in your generations. So also servants born to you, as well as those bought, shall be circumcised, even those who are 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 with your flesh as an eternal 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, the flesh of whose foreskin will not be circumcised, that soul shall be eliminated from his people. For he has made my covenant void.”
15 Furthermore God said to Abraham, 'As regards your wife Sarai, you must not cal her Sarai, butSarah.	15 God said also to Abraham: “Your wife Sarai, you shall not call Sarai, but Sarah.
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 from her I will give you a son, whom I will bless, and he will be among the nations, and the kings of the peoples will rise 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 on his face, and he laughed, saying in his heart: “Do you think a son can be born to a one hundred year old man? And will Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
18 Abraham said to God, 'May Ishmael live in your presence! That wil be enough!'	18 And he said to God, “If only Ishmael would live in your sight.”
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: “Your wife Sarah shall give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant, and with his offspring 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 Likewise, concerning Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless and enlarge him, and I will multiply him greatly. He will produce twelve leaders, and I will make him into a great nation.
21 But my covenant I shall maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah wil bear you at this time next year.'	21 Yet in truth, I will establish my covenant with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth for you at this time next year.”
22 When he had finished speaking to Abraham, God went up from him.	22 And when he had finished speaking with him, God ascended 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 Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all who 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 promptly, the very same day, just as God had instructed him.
24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when his foreskin was circumcised.	24 Abraham was ninety-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 his son Ishmael had completed thirteen years at the time of his circumcision.
26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day,	26 On the very same day, Abraham was circumcised with his son Ishmael.
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, those born in his house, as well as those who were bought, even the foreigners, were circumcised with him.