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for a father of many nations have I made thee.
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And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will
make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
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And I will establish my covenant between
me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God
unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
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And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land
wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their
God.
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And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after
thee in their generations.
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This
is
my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy
seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
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And ye shall circumcise the
flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
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And he that
is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is
born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which
is
not of thy seed.
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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.
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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.
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And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but
Sarah
shall
her name
be.
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And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless
her, and she shall be
a mother
of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
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Then Abraham fell
upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall
a child
be born unto him that is an hundred
years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
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And Abraham said unto God, O that
Ishmael might live before thee!
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And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and
thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant,
and
with his seed after him.
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And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him,
and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and
I will make him a great nation.
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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall
bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
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And he left off talking with him, and God went
up from Abraham.
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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.
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And Abraham
was
ninety years
old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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And Ishmael his son
was
thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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In the selfsame day was
Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
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And all the men of his house, born in the house, and
bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
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