5 No longer shall your name be called Abram,17:5 Abram means exalted father but Neh. 9:7your name shall be Abraham,17:5 Abraham means father of a multitudeCited Rom. 4:17for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
16 I will bless her, and moreover, I will ch. 18:10give17:16 Hebrew have given you a son by her. I will bless her, and ch. 35:11she shall become nations; kings of peoples shall come from her." 17 Then Abraham ver. 3fell on his face ch. 21:6;Rom. 4:19;[John 8:56]and laughed and said to himself, "Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?" 19 God said, "No, but ch. 18:10;21:2;Gal. 4:23,28Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name ch. 21:3Isaac.17:19 Isaac means he laughs I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.
23 Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.