¹ And Abram was ninety-nine years old, when Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said to him, I [am] the Almighty ùGod: walk before my face, and be perfect.

² And I will set my covenant between me and thee, and will very greatly multiply thee.

³ And Abram fell on his face; and God talked with him, saying,

⁴ It is I: behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of a multitude of nations.

⁵ And thy name shall no more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of a multitude of nations have I made thee.

⁶ And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

⁷ And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

⁸ And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them.

⁹ And God said to Abraham, And [as for] thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations.

¹⁰ This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee -- that every male among you be circumcised.

¹¹ And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and [that] shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

¹² And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you -- he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.

¹³ He who is born in thy house, and he who is bought with thy money, must be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

¹⁴ And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples: he hath broken my covenant.

¹⁵ And God said to Abraham, [As to] Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

¹⁶ And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son also of her; and I will bless her, and she shall become nations: kings of peoples shall be of her.

¹⁷ And Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear?

¹⁸ And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before thee!

¹⁹ And God said, Sarah thy wife shall indeed bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him, for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.

²⁰ And for Ishmael I have heard thee: behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful, and will very greatly multiply him; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

²¹ But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year.

²² And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.

²³ And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money -- every male among the people of Abraham's house -- and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.

²⁴ And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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

²⁶ In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

²⁷ and all the men of his house, born in his house, or bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

¹ And Jehovah visited Sarah as he had said, and Jehovah did to Sarah as he had spoken.

² And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

³ And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

⁴ And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac, being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

⁵ And Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

⁶ And Sarah said, God has made me laugh: all that hear will laugh with me.

⁷ And she said, Who would have said to Abraham, Sarah will suckle children? For I have borne [him] a son in his old age.

⁸ And the child grew, and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

⁹ And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

¹⁰ And she said to Abraham, Cast out this handmaid and her son; for the son of this handmaid shall not inherit with my son -- with Isaac.

¹¹ And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

¹² And God said to Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight because of the lad and because of thy handmaid: [in] all that Sarah hath said to thee hearken to her voice, for in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee.

¹³ But also the son of the handmaid will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

¹⁴ And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a flask of water, and gave [it] to Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder -- and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

¹⁵ And the water was exhausted from the flask; and she cast the child under one of the shrubs,

¹⁶ and she went and sat down over against [him], a bow-shot off; for she said, Let me not behold the death of the child. And she sat over against [him], and lifted up her voice and wept.

¹⁷ And God heard the voice of the lad. And the Angel of God called to Hagar from the heavens, and said to her, What [aileth] thee, Hagar? Fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad there, where he is.

¹⁸ Arise, take the lad, and hold him in thy hand; for I will make of him a great nation.

¹⁹ And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the flask with water, and gave the lad drink.

²⁰ And God was with the lad, and he grew; and he dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer.

²¹ And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran. And his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

²² And it came to pass at that time that Abimelech, and Phichol the captain of his host, spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.

²³ And now swear to me here by God that thou wilt not deal deceitfully with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. According to the kindness that I have done to thee, thou shalt do to me, and to the land in which thou sojournest.

²⁴ And Abraham said, I will swear.

²⁵ And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

²⁶ And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this, neither hast thou told me [of it], neither have I heard [of it] but to-day.

²⁷ And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them to Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

²⁸ And Abraham set seven ewe-lambs of the flock by themselves.

²⁹ And Abimelech said to Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe-lambs, these which thou hast set by themselves?

³⁰ And he said, That thou take the seven ewe-lambs of my hand, that they may be a witness to me that I have dug this well.

³¹ Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.

³² And they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. And Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the captain of his host, and returned into the land of the Philistines.

³³ And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Eternal ùGod.

³⁴ And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.