¹ And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I [am] God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;

² and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'

³ And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,

⁴ `I -- lo, My covenant [is] with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

⁵ and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

⁶ and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

⁷ `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

⁸ and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

⁹ And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

¹⁰ this [is] My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you [is] to be circumcised;

¹¹ and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.

¹² `And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed;

¹³ he is certainly circumcised who [is] born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;

¹⁴ and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'

¹⁵ And God saith unto Abraham, `Sarai thy wife -- thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah [is] her name;

¹⁶ and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations -- kings of peoples are from her.'

¹⁷ And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah -- daughter of ninety years -- bear?'

¹⁸ And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'

¹⁹ and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.

²⁰ As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;

²¹ and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'

²² and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.

²³ And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money -- every male among the men of Abraham's house -- and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.

²⁴ And Abraham [is] a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

²⁵ and Ishmael his son [is] a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

²⁶ in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

²⁷ and all the men of his house -- born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger -- have been circumcised with him.

¹ And they bring in the ark of God, and set it up in the midst of the tent that David hath stretched out for it, and they bring near burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before God;

² and David ceaseth from offering the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings, and blesseth the people in the name of Jehovah,

³ and giveth a portion to every man of Israel, both man and woman: to each a cake of bread, and a measure of wine, and a grape-cake.

⁴ And he putteth before the ark of Jehovah, of the Levites, ministers, even to make mention of, and to thank, and to give praise to Jehovah, God of Israel,

⁵ Asaph the head, and his second Zechariah; Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with instruments of psalteries, and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals is sounding;

⁶ and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests [are] with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

⁷ On that day then hath David given at the beginning to give thanks to Jehovah by the hand of Asaph and his brethren: --

⁸ Give thanks to Jehovah, call in His name, Make known among the peoples His doings.

⁹ Sing ye to Him, Sing psalms to Him, Meditate on all His wonders.

¹⁰ Boast yourselves in His holy name, Rejoice doth the heart of those seeking Jehovah.

¹¹ Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.

¹² Remember His wonders that He did, His signs, and the judgments of His mouth,

¹³ O seed of Israel, His servant, O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

¹⁴ He [is] Jehovah our God, In all the earth [are] His judgments.

¹⁵ Remember ye to the age His covenant, The word He commanded -- To a thousand generations,

¹⁶ Which He hath made with Abraham, And His oath -- to Isaac,

¹⁷ And He establisheth it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during.

¹⁸ Saying: To thee I give the land of Canaan, The portion of your inheritance,

¹⁹ When ye are few of number, As a little thing, and sojourners in it.

²⁰ And they go up and down, From nation unto nation, And from a kingdom unto another people.

²¹ He hath not suffered any to oppress them, And reproveth on their account kings:

²² Come not against Mine anointed ones, And against My prophets do not evil.

²³ Sing to Jehovah, all the earth, Proclaim from day unto day His salvation.

²⁴ Rehearse among nations His glory, Among all the peoples His wonders.

²⁵ For great [is] Jehovah, and praised greatly, And fearful He [is] above all gods.

²⁶ For all gods of the peoples [are] nought, And Jehovah the heavens hath made.

²⁷ Honour and majesty [are] before Him, Strength and joy [are] in His place.

²⁸ Ascribe to Jehovah, ye families of peoples, Ascribe to Jehovah honour and strength.

²⁹ Ascribe to Jehovah the honour of His name, Lift up a present, and come before Him. Bow yourselves to Jehovah, In the beauty of holiness.

³⁰ Be pained before Him, all the earth:

³¹ Also, established is the world, It is not moved! The heavens rejoice, and the earth is glad, And they say among nations: Jehovah hath reigned.

³² Roar doth the sea, and its fulness, Exult doth the field, and all that [is] in it,

³³ Then sing do trees of the forest, From the presence of Jehovah, For He hath come to judge the earth!

³⁴ Give thanks to Jehovah, for good, For to the age, [is] His kindness,

³⁵ And say, Save us, O God of our salvation, And gather us, and deliver us from the nations, To give thanks to Thy holy name, To triumph in Thy praise.

³⁶ Blessed [is] Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age and unto the age;' And all the people say, `Amen,' and have given praise to Jehovah.

³⁷ And he leaveth there before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, for Asaph and for his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, according to the matter of a day in its day,

³⁸ both Obed-Edom and their brethren, sixty and eight, and Obed-Edom son of Jeduthun, and Hosah for gatekeepers,

³⁹ and Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of Jehovah, in a high place that [is] in Gibeon,

⁴⁰ to cause to ascend burnt-offerings to Jehovah, on the altar of burnt-offering continually, morning and evening, and for all that is written in the law of Jehovah, that He charged on Israel.

⁴¹ And with them [are] Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest of those chosen, who were defined by name, to give thanks to Jehovah, for to the age [is] His kindness,

⁴² and with them -- Heman and Jeduthun -- [are] trumpets and cymbals for those sounding, and instruments of the song of God, and the sons of Jeduthun [are] at the gate.

⁴³ And all the people go, each to his house, and David turneth round to bless his house.