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| | Gen 17:1 | 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.
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| | Gen 17:2 | And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
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| | Gen 17:3 | Abram tell flat on his face.
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| | Gen 17:4 | And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father. of many nations.
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| | Gen 17:5 | 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.
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| | Gen 17:6 | And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
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| | Gen 17:7 | 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.
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| | Gen 17:8 | 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.
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| | Gen 17:9 | Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
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| | Gen 17:10 | 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:
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| | Gen 17:11 | And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a h sign of the covenant between me and you.
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| | Gen 17:12 | 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:
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| | Gen 17:13 | And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.
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| | Gen 17:14 | 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.
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| | Gen 17:15 | God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.
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| | Gen 17:16 | 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.
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| | Gen 17:17 | 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?
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| | Gen 17:18 | And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.
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| | Gen 17:19 | 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.
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| | Gen 17:20 | 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.
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| | Gen 17:21 | But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.
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| | Gen 17:22 | And when he had left oil speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.
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| | Gen 17:23 | 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.
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| | Gen 17:24 | Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.
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| | Gen 17:25 | And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.
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| | Gen 17:27 | 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.
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| | Gen 17:28 | The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.
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