Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 17

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When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.

No longer will you be called Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

I will establish my covenant as an everlasting covenant between me and you and your descendants after you for the generations to come, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you; and I will be their God.”

Abraham fell facedown; he laughed and said to himself, “Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?”

God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.

You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.

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

For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring. Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.