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 will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

³ Abram tell flat on his face.

⁴ And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father. of many 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 And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, 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 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 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 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 shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised:

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 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 And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual 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 God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

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 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 And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

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 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 will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

²² And when he had left oil speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

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 and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

²⁵ And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.

²⁶ The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.

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.

¹ WHAT shall we say then that Abraham hath found, who is our father according to the flesh.

² For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

³ For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.

⁴ Now to him that worketh, the reward is not reckoned according to grace, but according to debt.

⁵ But to him that worketh not, yet believeth in him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is reputed to justice, according to the purpose of the grace of God.

⁶ As David also termeth the blessedness of a man, to whom God reputeth justice without works:

⁷ Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.

⁸ Blessed is the man to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin.

⁹ This blessedness then, doth it remain in the circumcision only, or in the uncircumcision also? For we say that unto Abraham faith was reputed to justice.

¹⁰ How then was it reputed? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

¹¹ And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith, which he had, being uncircumcised; that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised, that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

¹² And might be the father of circumcision; not to them only, that are of the circumcision, but to them also that follow the steps of the faithful, that is in the uncircumcision of our father Abraham.

¹³ For not through the law was the promise to Abraham, or to his seed, that he should be heir of the world; but through the justice of faith.

¹⁴ For if they who are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, the promise is made of no effect.

¹⁵ For the law worketh wrath. For where there is no law, neither is there transgression.

¹⁶ Therefore is it of faith, that according to grace the promise might be firm to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

¹⁷ (As it is written: I have made thee a father of many nations,) before God, whom he believed, who quickeneth the dead; and calleth those things that are not, as those that are.

¹⁸ Who against hope believed in hope; that he might be made the father of many nations, according to that which was said to him: So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹ And he was not weak in faith; neither did he consider his own body now dead, whereas he was almost an hundred years old, nor the dead womb of Sara.

²⁰ In the promise also of God he staggered not by distrust; but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God:

²¹ Most fully knowing, that whatsoever he has promised, he is able also to perform.

²² And therefore it was reputed to him unto justice.

²³ Now it is not written only for him, that it was reputed to him unto justice,

²⁴ But also for us, to whom it shall be reputed, if we believe in him, that raised up Jesus Christ, our Lord, from the dead,

²⁵ Who was delivered up for our sins, and rose again for our justification.