Douay Bible - Genesis Chapter 17

Genesis 17:1
And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

Genesis 17:2
And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

Genesis 17:3
Abram tell flat on his face.

Genesis 17:4
And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father. of many nations.

Genesis 17:5
Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:6
And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy sad after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Genesis 17:8
And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

Genesis 17:9
Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

Genesis 17:10
This is my covenant which you shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised:

Genesis 17:11
And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a h sign of the covenant between me and you.

Genesis 17:12
An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock:

Genesis 17:13
And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

Genesis 17:14
The male, whose dash of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

Genesis 17:15
God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

Genesis 17:16
And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shell become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

Genesis 17:18
And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

Genesis 17:19
And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

Genesis 17:20
And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

Genesis 17:21
But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

Genesis 17:22
And when he had left oil speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

Genesis 17:23
And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.

Genesis 17:24
Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

Genesis 17:25
And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.

Genesis 17:26
The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.

Genesis 17:27
And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers were circumcised with him.

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