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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 .
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And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
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Abram tell flat on his face .
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And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father . of many nations .
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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 .
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And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
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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.
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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 .
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Again God said to Abraham : And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations .
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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 :
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And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin , that it may be for a h sign of the covenant between me and you.
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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:
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And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.
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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.
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God said also to Abraham : Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai , but Sara .
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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.
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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?
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And he said to God : O that Ismael may live before thee.
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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.
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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 .
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But my covenant I will establish with Isaac , whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.
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And when he had left oil speaking with him, God went up from Abraham .
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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.
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Abraham was ninety and nine years old , when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin .
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And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision .
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The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son .
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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.