Lexham English Bible

Genesis 17:14-27 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

14. And as for any uncircumcised male who has not circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.

15. And God said to Abraham, “as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name.

16. And I will bless her; moreover, I give to you from her a son. And I will bless her, and she shall give rise to nations. Kings of peoples shall come from her.”

17. And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, “Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old, or can Sarah bear a child at ninety?”

18. And Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

19. And God said, “No, but Sarah your wife shall bear a son for you, and you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant to his offspring after him.

20. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I will bless him and I will make him fruitful, and I will multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

21. But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this appointed time next year.”

22. When he finished speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

23. And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all who were born of his house, and all those acquired by his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the same day that God spoke with him.

24. Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

25. And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

26. Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.

27. And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those acquired by money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.