Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 17

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When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the Almighty God. Obey me and always do what is right.

Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, because I am making you the ancestor of many nations.

“I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.

“I make this covenant with you: I promise that you will be the ancestor of many nations.

But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son and you will name him Isaac. I will keep my covenant with him and with his descendants for ever. It is an everlasting covenant.

I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants for ever, and I will be their God.”

Abraham bowed down with his face touching the ground, but he began to laugh when he thought, “Can a man have a child when he is a hundred years old? Can Sarah have a child at ninety?”

God said to Abraham, “You must no longer call your wife Sarai; from now on her name is Sarah.

From now on you must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old, including slaves born in your homes and slaves bought from foreigners. This will show that there is a covenant between you and me.

But I will keep my covenant with your son Isaac, who will be born to Sarah about this time next year.”

From now on you must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old, including slaves born in your homes and slaves bought from foreigners. This will show that there is a covenant between you and me. Each one must be circumcised, and this will be a physical sign to show that my covenant with you is everlasting.