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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 17 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/17-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > Genesis 17</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/16.htm" title="Genesis 16">◄</a> Genesis 17 <a href="../genesis/18.htm" title="Genesis 18">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/genesis/17.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">The Sign of the Covenant</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When Abram was 99 years old, the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> appeared to him and said, “I am the sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Abram bowed down with his face to the ground, and God said to him, <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>I will give the whole land of Canaan – the land where you are now residing – to you and your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people – he has failed to carry out my requirement.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then God said to Abraham, “As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Abraham bowed down with his face to the ground and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live before you!”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>God said, “No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>When he finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised; <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/genesis/17-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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