The Water Dries Up
Then aGod remembered Noah and all the beasts and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and bGod caused a wind to pass over the earth, and the water subsided. 2 Also athe fountains of the deep and the floodgates of the sky were closed, and bthe rain from the sky was restrained; 3 and the water receded from the earth, going forth and returning, and at the end aof 150 days the water decreased. 4 In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, athe ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat. 5 Now the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.
6 Then it happened at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the awindow of the ark which he had made; 7 and he sent out a raven, and it went out flying back and forth until the water was dried up from the earth. 8 Then he sent out a dove from him, to see if the water was abated from the face of the land; 9 but the dove found no resting place for the sole of its foot, so it returned to him into the ark, for the water was on the surface of all the earth. Then he stretched out his hand and took it and brought it into the ark to himself. 10 Then he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark. 11 And the dove came to him toward evening, and behold, in its beak was a freshly picked olive leaf. So Noah knew that the water was abated from the earth. 12 Then he waited yet another seven days and sent out athe dove; but it did not return to him again.
13 Now it happened in the asix hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up. 14 In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry. 15 Then God spoke to Noah, saying, 16 “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and your sons’ wives with you. 17 Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may aswarm on the earth, and that they may be fruitful and multiply on the earth.” 18 So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him. 19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, went out by their families from the ark.
Yahweh’s Covenant with Noah
20 Then Noah built aan altar to Yahweh and took of every bclean animal and of every clean bird and offered cburnt offerings on the altar. 21 And Yahweh asmelled the soothing aroma; and Yahweh said to Himself, “I will never again bcurse the ground because of man, for cthe intent of man’s heart is evil from his youth; dand I will never again strike down every living thing as I have done.
22 While all the days of the earth remain,
Seedtime and harvest,
And cold and heat,
And asummer and winter,
And bday and night
Shall not cease.”
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “aBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. 2 And the fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. 3 Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; aas with the green plant, I give all to you. 4 However, flesh with its life, that is, aits blood, you shall not eat. 5 Surely I will require ayour lifeblood; bfrom every living thing I will require it. And from every man, from each man’s brother I will require the life of man.
6 aWhoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For bin the image of God
He made man.
7 As for you, abe fruitful and multiply;
Swarm on the earth and multiply in it.”
8 Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, 9 “As for Me, behold, aI establish My covenant with you and with your seed after you; 10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, even every beast of the earth. 11 Indeed I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall anever again be cut off by the water of the flood, band there shall never again be a flood to destroy the earth.” 12 Then God said, “This is athe sign of the covenant which I am giving to be between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; 13 I put My abow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. 14 And it will be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, 15 and aI will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and bnever again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 So the bow shall be in the cloud, and I will look upon it, to remember the aeverlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”
Noah’s Three Sons
18 Now the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth; and aHam was the father of Canaan. 19 These three were the sons of Noah, and afrom these the whole earth was scattered abroad.
20 Then Noah began to be a man of the land and planted a vineyard. 21 And he drank of the wine and abecame drunk and uncovered himself inside his tent. 22 Then Ham, the father of Canaan, asaw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside. 23 But Shem and Japheth took the garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness. 24 Then Noah awoke from his wine, and he knew what his youngest son had done to him. 25 So he said,
“aCursed be Canaan;
bA servant of servants
He shall be to his brothers.”
26 And he said,
“aBlessed be Yahweh,
The God of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.
27 aMay God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”
28 And Noah lived 350 years after the flood. 29 So all the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.
The Generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth
Now these are the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.
2 aThe sons of Japheth were bGomer and Magog and cMadai and dJavan and Tubal and eMeshech and Tiras. 3 The sons of Gomer were aAshkenaz and Riphath and bTogarmah. 4 The sons of Javan were Elishah and aTarshish, Kittim and Dodanim. 5 From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his tongue, according to their families, into their nations.
6 aThe sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim and Put and Canaan. 7 The sons of Cush were aSeba and Havilah and Sabtah and bRaamah and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah were bSheba and cDedan. 8 Now Cush was the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one on the earth. 9 He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh; therefore it is said, “Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before Yahweh.” 10 The beginning of his kingdom was aBabel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of bShinar. 11 From that land he went out ato Assyria and built Nineveh and Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, 12 and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city. 13 Mizraim was the father of aLudim and Anamim and Lehabim and Naphtuhim 14 and aPathrusim and Casluhim (from whom came the Philistines) and Caphtorim.
15 Canaan was the father of aSidon, his firstborn, and bHeth 16 and athe Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite 17 and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite 18 and the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; and afterward the families of the Canaanite were scattered. 19 aThe border of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward bSodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha. 20 These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their tongues, by their lands, by their nations.
21 Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born. 22 aThe sons of Shem were bElam and Asshur and cArpachshad and dLud and Aram. 23 The sons of Aram were aUz and Hul and Gether and Mash. 24 Arpachshad was the father of aShelah; and Shelah was the father of Eber. 25 aNow two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan. 26 And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah 27 and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah 28 and Obal and Abimael and Sheba 29 and Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan. 30 Now their settlement extended from Mesha as you go toward Sephar, the hill country of the east. 31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, according to their tongues, by their lands, according to their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their generations, by their nations; and aout of these the nations were separated on the earth after the flood.
The Tower of Babel
Now the whole earth had the same language and the same words. 2 And it happened as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land aof Shinar and settled there. 3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And they had brick for stone, and they had atar for mortar. 4 And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top awill reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves ba name, lest we cbe scattered over the face of the whole earth.” 5 aThen Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. 6 And Yahweh said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have athe same language. And this is what they have begun to do. So now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, alet Us go down and there bconfuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s language.” 8 So Yahweh ascattered them from there over the face of the whole earth; and they stopped building the city. 9 Therefore its name was called aBabel, because there Yahweh confused the language of the whole earth; and from there Yahweh scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
The Generations of Shem
10 aThese are the generations of Shem. Shem was 100 years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood; 11 and Shem lived 500 years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
12 And Arpachshad lived 35 years and became the father of Shelah; 13 and Arpachshad lived 403 years after he became the father of Shelah, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
14 And Shelah lived 30 years and became the father of Eber; 15 and Shelah lived 403 years after he became the father of Eber, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
16 And Eber lived 34 years and became the father of Peleg; 17 and Eber lived 430 years after he became the father of Peleg, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
18 And Peleg lived 30 years and became the father of Reu; 19 and Peleg lived 209 years after he became the father of Reu, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
20 And Reu lived 32 years and became the father of Serug; 21 and Reu lived 207 years after he became the father of Serug, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
22 And Serug lived 30 years and became the father of Nahor; 23 and Serug lived 200 years after he became the father of Nahor, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
24 Nahor lived 29 years and became the father of aTerah; 25 and Nahor lived 119 years after he became the father of Terah, and he became the father of other sons and daughters.
26 And Terah lived 70 years and became athe father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
The Generations of Terah
27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and aHaran became the father of bLot. 28 And Haran died in the presence of Terah his father in the land of his birth, in aUr of the Chaldeans. 29 Abram and aNahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was bSarai; and the name of Nahor’s wife was cMilcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. 30 aAnd Sarai was barren; she had no child.
31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out together from aUr of the Chaldeans in order to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there. 32 And the days of Terah were 205 years; and Terah died in Haran.
Yahweh Appears to Abram
And aYahweh said to Abram,
“Go forth from your land,
And from your kin
And from your father’s house,
To the land which I will show you;
2 And aI will make you a great nation,
And bI will bless you,
And make your name great;
And so cyou shall be a blessing;
3 And aI will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
bAnd in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
4 So Abram went forth as Yahweh had spoken to him; and aLot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 So Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their apossessions which they had accumulated, and bthe persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go forth to the land of Canaan; cthus they came to the land of Canaan. 6 And Abram passed through the land as far as the site of aShechem, to the oak of Moreh. Now the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 Then Yahweh aappeared to Abram and said, “bTo your seed I will give this land.” So he built can altar there to Yahweh who had appeared to him. 8 Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with aBethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to Yahweh and bcalled upon the name of Yahweh. 9 And Abram journeyed on, continuing toward athe Negev.
Abram and Sarai in Egypt
10 Now there was aa famine in the land; so Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was bsevere in the land. 11 And it happened as he drew near to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Now behold, I know that you are a woman abeautiful in appearance; 12 aand it will be when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. 13 Please say that you are amy sister so that it may go well with me because of you, and that bI may live on account of you.” 14 Now it happened when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful. 15 And Pharaoh’s officials saw her and praised her to Pharaoh; and athe woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16 Therefore ahe treated Abram well because of her; and sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels bcame into his possession.
17 But Yahweh astruck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18 Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “aWhat is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for myself as a wife? So now, here is your wife, take her and go.” 20 So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away with his wife and all that belonged to him.
Abram and Lot Separate
So Abram went up from Egypt to athe Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.
2 Now Abram was avery rich in livestock, in silver and in gold. 3 And he went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, abetween Bethel and Ai, 4 to the place of the aaltar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called upon the name of Yahweh.
5 Now aLot, who was going with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents. 6 And athe land could not sustain them while living together, bfor their possessions were so abundant that they were not able to live together. 7 aAnd there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. Now bthe Canaanite and the Perizzite were living then in the land.
8 aSo Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left.” 10 Then Lot lifted up his eyes and saw all the avalley of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere—this was before Yahweh bdestroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—like cthe garden of Yahweh, dlike the land of Egypt as you go to eZoar. 11 So Lot chose for himself all the valley of the Jordan, and Lot journeyed eastward. Thus they separated from each other. 12 Abram lived in the land of Canaan, while Lot lived in athe cities of the valley and moved his tents as far as Sodom. 13 Now athe men of Sodom were evil and bsinners, exceedingly so, against Yahweh.
14 And Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “aNow lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, bnorthward and southward and eastward and westward; 15 afor all the land which you see, bI will give it to you and to your seed forever. 16 And I will make your seed aas the dust of the earth, so that if anyone can number the dust of the earth, then your seed can also be numbered. 17 Arise, awalk about the land through its length and breadth; for bI will give it to you.” 18 Then Abram moved his tent and came and lived by the aoaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built ban altar to Yahweh.
Kings of the Valley Take Lot
And it happened in the days of Amraphel king of aShinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of bElam, and Tidal king of Goiim, 2 that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of aAdmah, and Shemeber king of bZeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, cZoar). 3 All these came as allies to athe valley of Siddim (that is, bthe Salt Sea). 4 Now for twelve years they had served Chedorlaomer, but the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5 So in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings that were with him, came and struck the aRephaim in bAshteroth-karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham and the Emim in cShaveh-kiriathaim, 6 and the aHorites in their Mount Seir, as far as bEl-paran, which is by the wilderness. 7 Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, aKadesh). And they struck all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, who were living in bHazazon-tamar. 8 And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) came out; and they arranged themselves for battle against them in athe valley of Siddim, 9 against Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings against five— 10 now the valley of Siddim was full of tar pits—and athe kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and they fell into them; but those who remained behind fled to the bhill country. 11 Then they took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food supply and departed. 12 They also took Lot, aAbram’s nephew, and his possessions and departed; bnow he was living in Sodom.
13 Then a fugitive came and told Abram the aHebrew. Now he was dwelling by the boaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner, and these were cin a covenant with Abram. 14 So Abram heard that ahis relative had been taken captive, and he led out his trained men, bborn in his house, 318 in number, and went in pursuit as far as cDan. 15 aAnd he divided his men against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of bDamascus. 16 And he abrought back all the possessions, and he also brought back bhis relative Lot with his possessions and also the women and the people.
Melchizedek Blesses Abram
17 Then after he came back from striking down Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, athe king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (that is, bthe King’s Valley). 18 And aMelchizedek king of Salem brought out bbread and wine; now he was a cpriest of God Most High. 19 Then he blessed him and said,
“Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
aPossessor of heaven and earth;
20 And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.”
aThen he gave him a tenth of all. 21 And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give the people to me, but take the possessions for yourself.” 22 Then Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to Yahweh aGod Most High, bpossessor of heaven and earth, 23 that aI will not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so that you would not say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’ 24 I will take nothing except what the young men have eaten, and the share of the men who went with me, aAner, Eshcol, and Mamre; let them take their share.”
Yahweh Cuts a Covenant with Abram
After these things athe word of Yahweh came to Abram in a vision, saying,
“bDo not fear, Abram,
I am ca shield to you;
Your dreward shall be very great.”
2 And Abram said, “O Lord Yahweh, what will You give me, as I go on being childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” 3 And Abram said, “Since You have given no seed to me, behold, one aborn in my house is my heir.” 4 Then behold, the word of Yahweh came to him, saying, “This one will not be your heir; abut one who will come forth from your own body, he shall be your heir.” 5 And He brought him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and anumber the stars, if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “bSo shall your seed be.” 6 aThen he believed in Yahweh; and He counted it to him as righteousness. 7 And He said to him, “I am Yahweh who brought you out of aUr of the Chaldeans, to bgive you this land to possess it.” 8 And he said, “O Lord Yahweh, ahow may I know that I will possess it?” 9 So He said to him, “Bring Me a three year old heifer, and a three year old female goat, and a three year old ram, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.” 10 Then he brought all these to Him and asplit them into parts down the middle and laid each part opposite the other; but he bdid not split apart the birds. 11 Then the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
12 Now it happened that when the sun was going down, aa deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, terror and great darkness fell upon him. 13 Then God said to Abram, “Know for certain that ayour seed will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and bthey will be enslaved and mistreated cfour hundred years. 14 But I will also judge the nation to whom they are enslaved, and afterward they will come out awith many possessions. 15 As for you, ayou shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age. 16 Then in athe fourth generation they will return here, for bthe iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.”
17 Now it happened that the sun had set, and it was very dark, and behold, there appeared a smoking oven and a flaming torch which apassed between these pieces. 18 On that day Yahweh cut a covenant with Abram, saying,
“aTo your seed I have given this land,
From bthe river of Egypt as far as the great river, the river Euphrates:
19 athe Kenite and the Kenizzite and the Kadmonite 20 and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Rephaim 21 and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Girgashite and the Jebusite.”
Sarai and Hagar
Now aSarai, Abram’s wife, had borne him no children, and she had ban Egyptian servant-woman whose name was Hagar. 2 So Sarai said to Abram, “Now behold, Yahweh has shut my womb from bearing children. aPlease go in to my servant-woman; perhaps I will obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. 3 And after Abram had lived aten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant-woman, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. 4 So he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. Then she saw that she had conceived, so her mistress became contemptible in her sight. 5 And Sarai said to Abram, “aMay the violence done to me be upon you. I gave my servant-woman into your embrace, but she saw that she had conceived, so I became contemptible in her sight. bMay Yahweh judge between you and me.” 6 But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your servant-woman is in your hand; do to her what is good in your sight.” So Sarai afflicted her, and ashe fled from her presence.
7 Now athe angel of Yahweh found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, by the spring on the way to bShur. 8 And he said, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant-woman, awhere have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” 9 Then the angel of Yahweh said to her, “Return to your mistress and humble yourself under her hands.” 10 Moreover, the aangel of Yahweh said to her, “bI will greatly multiply your seed so that they will be too many to be counted.” 11 And the angel of Yahweh said to her further,
“Behold, you are with child,
And you will bear a son;
And you shall call his name Ishmael,
Because aYahweh has heard your affliction.
12 And he will be a awild donkey of a man,
His hand will be against everyone,
And everyone’s hand will be against him;
And he will dwell bin the face of all his brothers.”
13 Then she called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees”; for she said, “aHave I even remained alive here after seeing Him?” 14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between aKadesh and Bered.
15 So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. 16 Now Abram was aeighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to him.
Circumcision, the Sign of the Covenant
Now it happened that when Abram was ninety-nine years old, aYahweh appeared to Abram and said to him,
“I am God bAlmighty;
Walk before Me and be cblameless,
2 so that I may confirm My acovenant between Me and you,
And that I may bmultiply you exceedingly.”
3 Then Abram afell on his face, and God spoke with him, saying,
4 “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you,
And you will be the father of a amultitude of nations.
5 And no longer shall your name be called Abram,
But ayour name shall be Abraham;
For bI have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
6 And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and akings will go forth from you. 7 And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an aeverlasting covenant, bto be God to you and cto your seed after you. 8 aAnd I will give to you and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and bI will be their God.”
9 God said further to Abraham, “Now as for you, ayou shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations. 10 aThis is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you: every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 And ayou shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you. 12 And every male among you who is aeight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, one who is born in the house or one who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your seed. 13 A servant who is born in your house or awho is bought with your money shall surely be circumcised; thus shall My covenant be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be acut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
Sarah Will Bear Isaac
15 Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. 16 And I will bless her, and indeed I will give you aa son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; bkings of peoples will come from her.” 17 Then Abraham afell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, “Will a son be born to a man one hundred years old? And bwill Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a son?” 18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You!” 19 But God said, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you aa son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and bI will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him. 20 As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him and awill make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. bHe shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a cgreat nation. 21 But My covenant I will establish with aIsaac, whom bSarah will bear to you at this season next year.” 22 So He finished talking with him, and aGod went up from Abraham.
23 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were aborn in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the very same day, bas God had spoken with him. 24 Now Abraham was ninety-nine years old when ahe was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And aIshmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son. 27 Now all the men of his household, who were aborn in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.