| Berean Study Bible | NET Bible |
| 1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless. | 1When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless. |
| 2I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly.” | 2Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants." |
| 3Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him, | 3Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him, |
| 4“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations. | 4"As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations. |
| 5No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations. | 5No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. |
| 6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. | 6I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. |
| 7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you. | 7I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. |
| 8And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.” | 8I will give the whole land of Canaan--the land where you are now residing--to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God." |
| 9God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you. | 9Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. |
| 10This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised. | 10This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised. |
| 11You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you. | 11You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you. |
| 12Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring. | 12Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants. |
| 13Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant. | 13They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder. |
| 14But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.” | 14Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people--he has failed to carry out my requirement." |
| 15Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah. | 15Then God said to Abraham, "As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name. |
| 16And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.” | 16I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!" |
| 17Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?” | 17Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, "Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?" |
| 18And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!” | 18Abraham said to God, "O that Ishmael might live before you!" |
| 19But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. | 19God said, "No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him. |
| 20As for Ishmael, I have heard you, and I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and multiply him greatly. He will become the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. | 20As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation. |
| 21But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.” | 21But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year." |
| 22When He had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him. | 22When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him. |
| 23On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him. | 23Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do. |
| 24So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised, | 24Now Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised; |
| 25and his son Ishmael was thirteen; | 25his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised. |
| 26Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day. | 26Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day. |
| 27And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him. | 27All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him. |
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