1 Toe Abram nege en negentig jaar oud was, het die HERE aan Abram verskyn en vir hom gesê: Ek is God, die Almagtige; wandel voor my aangesig, dan sal jy opreg wees.
2 En Ek wil my verbond sluit tussen My en jou, en jou buitengewoon vermeerder.
3 Toe val Abram op sy aangesig, en God het met hom gespreek en gesê:
4 Wat My aangaan, kyk, my verbond is met jou, en jy sal die vader van 'n menigte van nasies word.
5 Daarom sal hulle jou nie meer Abram noem nie, maar jou naam sal wees Abraham, want Ek maak jou 'n vader van 'n menigte van nasies.
6 En Ek sal jou buitengewoon vrugbaar maak: Ek sal jou tot nasies maak, en konings sal uit jou voortkom.
7 En Ek sal my verbond oprig tussen My en jou en jou nageslag n jou in hulle geslagte as 'n ewige verbond, om vir jou 'n God te wees en vir jou nageslag n jou.
8 En Ek sal aan jou en jou nageslag n jou die land van jou vreemdelingskap gee, die hele land Kanaän, as 'n ewige besitting; en Ek sal vir hulle 'n God wees.
9 Verder het God aan Abraham gesê: Maar jy moet my verbond hou, jy en jou nageslag n jou, van geslag tot geslag.
10 Dit is my verbond wat julle moet hou tussen My en julle en jou nageslag n jou: Al wat manlik onder julle is, moet besny word --
11 julle moet aan die vlees van julle voorhuid besny word, en dit sal 'n teken wees van die verbond tussen My en julle.
12 'n Seuntjie van agt dae dan moet onder julle besny word, al wat manlik is in julle geslagte. Die wat in jou huis gebore is, en die wat van enige vreemdeling met geld gekoop is, wat nie van jou geslag is nie --
13 die wat in jou huis gebore en wat met jou geld gekoop is, moet sekerlik besny word. So moet dan my verbond in julle vlees wees as 'n ewige verbond.
14 En wat manlik is en die voorhuid het, wat nie aan die vlees van sy voorhuid besny is nie -- die siel moet uit sy volksgenote uitgeroei word: hy het my verbond verbreek.
15 Verder het God aan Abraham gesê: Sarai, jou vrou, moet jy nie Sarai noem nie, maar haar naam sal Sara wees.
16 En Ek sal haar seën en jou uit haar ook 'n seun gee; ja, Ek sal haar seën, sodat sy tot nasies sal word; konings van volke sal uit haar voortkom.
17 Toe val Abraham op sy aangesig, en hy lag en sê in sy hart: Kan daar vir een wat honderd jaar oud is, 'n kind gebore word? Of kan Sara, wat negentig jaar oud is, baar?
18 En Abraham sê aan God: Ag, mag Ismael lewe voor u aangesig!
19 Toe antwoord God: Voorwaar, jou vrou Sara sal vir jou 'n seun baar, en jy moet hom Isak noem; en Ek sal my verbond met hom oprig as 'n ewige verbond vir sy nageslag n hom.
20 Ook wat Ismael aangaan, het Ek jou verhoor. Kyk, Ek seën hom en maak hom vrugbaar en vermeerder hom buitengewoon. Twaalf vorste sal hy verwek, en Ek sal hom 'n groot nasie maak.
21 Maar my verbond sal Ek oprig met Isak wat Sara vir jou anderjaar op hierdie tyd sal baar.
22 En nadat Hy klaar met hom gespreek het, het God van Abraham af opgevaar.
23 Daarop neem Abraham sy seun Ismael en almal wat in sy huis gebore is, en almal wat met sy geld gekoop is, almal wat manlik was onder die mense in die huis van Abraham, en hy het die vlees van hulle voorhuid nog op daardie selfde dag besny, soos God met hom gespreek het.
24 En Abraham was nege en negentig jaar oud toe hy aan die vlees van sy voorhuid besny is.
25 En sy seun Ismael was dertien jaar oud toe hy aan die vlees van sy voorhuid besny is.
26 Op daardie selfde dag is Abraham en sy seun Ismael besny
27 en al die manne van sy huis -- die wat in sy huis gebore en die wat van vreemdelinge met geld gekoop is, is saam met hom besny.
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
2 And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.
3 And Abram went down on his face on the earth, and the Lord God went on talking with him, and said,
4 As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.
5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.
6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.
7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.
8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
9 And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.
10 And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.
11 In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.
12 Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.
13 He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.
14 And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.
15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.
16 And I will give her a blessing so that you will have a son by her: truly my blessing will be on her, and she will be the mother of nations: kings of peoples will be her offspring.
17 Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?
18 And Abraham said to God, If only Ishmael's life might be your care!
19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.
20 As for Ishmael, I have given ear to your prayer: truly I have given him my blessing and I will make him fertile and give him great increase; he will be the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.
21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.
22 And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.
23 And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.
24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.
25 And Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he underwent circumcision.
26 Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day.
27 And all the men of his house, those whose birth had taken place in the house and those whom he had got for money from men of other lands, underwent circumcision with him.