Abram's new name -- Circumcision instituted.

¹⁾And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I, the Almighty God, give unto thee a commandment; that thou shalt walk uprightly before me, and be perfect.

²⁾And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

³⁾And it came to pass, that Abram fell on his face, and called upon the name of the Lord.

⁴⁾And God talked with him, saying, My people have gone astray from my precepts, and have not kept mine ordinances, which I gave unto their fathers;

⁵⁾And they have not observed mine anointing, and the burial, or baptism wherewith I commanded them;

⁶⁾But have turned from the commandment, and taken unto themselves the washing of children, and the blood of sprinkling;

⁷⁾And have said that the blood of the righteous Abel was shed for sins; and have not known wherein they are accountable before me.

⁸⁾But as for thee, behold, I will make my covenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

⁹⁾And this covenant I make, that thy children may be known among all nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be called Abraham; for, a father of many nations have I made thee.

¹⁰⁾And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come of thee, and of thy seed.

¹¹⁾And I will establish a covenant of circumcision with thee, and it shall be my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations; that thou mayest know forever that children are not accountable before me until they are eight years old.

¹²⁾And thou shalt observe to keep all my covenants wherein I covenanted with thy fathers; and thou shalt keep the commandments which I have given thee with mine own mouth, and I will be a God unto thee and thy seed after thee.

¹³⁾And I will give unto thee and thy seed after thee, a land wherein thou art a stranger; all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

¹⁴⁾And God said unto Abraham, Therefore thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, in their generations.

¹⁵⁾And this shall be my covenant which ye shall keep between me and thee and thy seed after thee; every man-child among you shall be circumcised.

¹⁶⁾And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

¹⁷⁾And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man-child in your generations;

¹⁸⁾He that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

¹⁹⁾He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised, and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

²⁰⁾And the uncircumcised man-child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people, he hath broken my covenant.

²¹⁾And God said unto Abraham, as for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah thou shalt call her name.

²²⁾And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be blessed, The mother of nations; kings and people shall be of her.

²³⁾Then Abraham fell on his face and rejoiced, and said in his heart, There shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old, and Sarah that is ninety years old shall bear.

²⁴⁾And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live uprightly before thee!

²⁵⁾And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bare thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish my covenant with him also, for an everlasting covenant with his seed after him.

²⁶⁾And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee; Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;

²⁷⁾Twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

²⁸⁾But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.

²⁹⁾And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.

³⁰⁾And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

³¹⁾And Abraham was ninety and nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

³²⁾And Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

³³⁾In the selfsame day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son; and all the men of his house, which were born in his house, and bought with money of strangers, were also circumcised with him.