1 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.2 Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers."3 Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,4 "As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.5 No longer will you be called Abram "; your name will be Abraham, "for I have made you a father of many nations.6 I will make you very fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will come from you.7 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.8 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."9 Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.10 This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.11 You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.12 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.13 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.14 Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."15 God also said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.16 I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her."17 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?"18 And Abraham said to God, "If only Ishmael might live under your blessing!"19 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.20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year."22 When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.23 On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as God told him.24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,25 and his son Ishmael was thirteen;26 Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day.27 And every male in Abraham's household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was circumcised with him.

1 Postquam vero nonaginta et novem annorum esse cperat, apparuit ei Dominus, dixitque ad eum : Ego Deus omnipotens : ambula coram me, et esto perfectus. 2 Ponamque fdus meum inter me et te, et multiplicabo te vehementer nimis. 3 Cecidit Abram pronus in faciem. 4 Dixitque ei Deus : Ego sum, et pactum meum tecum, erisque pater multarum gentium. 5 Nec ultra vocabitur nomen tuum Abram, sed appellaberis Abraham : quia patrem multarum gentium constitui te. 6 Faciamque te crescere vehementissime, et ponam te in gentibus, regesque ex te egredientur. 7 Et statuam pactum meum inter me et te, et inter semen tuum post te in generationibus suis, fdere sempiterno : ut sim Deus tuus, et seminis tui post te. 8 Daboque tibi et semini tuo terram peregrinationis tu, omnem terram Chanaan in possessionem ternam, eroque Deus eorum.9 Dixit iterum Deus ad Abraham : Et tu ergo custodies pactum meum, et semen tuum post te in generationibus suis. 10 Hoc est pactum meum quod observabitis inter me et vos, et semen tuum post te : circumcidetur ex vobis omne masculinum : 11 et circumcidetis carnem prputii vestri, ut sit in signum fderis inter me et vos. 12 Infans octo dierum circumcidetur in vobis, omne masculinum in generationibus vestris : tam vernaculus, quam emptitius circumcidetur, et quicumque non fuerit de stirpe vestra : 13 eritque pactum meum in carne vestra in fdus ternum. 14 Masculus, cujus prputii caro circumcisa non fuerit, delebitur anima illa de populo suo : quia pactum meum irritum fecit.15 Dixit quoque Deus ad Abraham : Sarai uxorem tuam non vocabis Sarai, sed Saram. 16 Et benedicam ei, et ex illa dabo tibi filium cui benedicturus sum : eritque in nationes, et reges populorum orientur ex eo. 17 Cecidit Abraham in faciem suam, et risit, dicens in corde suo : Putasne centenario nascetur filius ? et Sara nonagenaria pariet ? 18 Dixitque ad Deum : Utinam Ismal vivat coram te. 19 Et ait Deus ad Abraham : Sara uxor tua pariet tibi filium, vocabisque nomen ejus Isaac, et constituam pactum meum illi in fdus sempiternum, et semini ejus post eum. 20 Super Ismal quoque exaudivi te : ecce, benedicam ei, et augebo, et multiplicabo eum valde : duodecim duces generabit, et faciam illum in gentem magnam. 21 Pactum vero meum statuam ad Isaac, quem pariet tibi Sara tempore isto in anno altero. 22 Cumque finitus esset sermo loquentis cum eo, ascendit Deus ab Abraham.23 Tulit autem Abraham Ismal filium suum, et omnes vernaculos domus su, universosque quos emerat, cunctos mares ex omnibus viris domus su : et circumcidit carnem prputii eorum statim in ipsa die, sicut prceperat ei Deus. 24 Abraham nonaginta et novem erat annorum quando circumcidit carnem prputii sui. 25 Et Ismal filius tredecim annos impleverat tempore circumcisionis su. 26 Eadem die circumcisus est Abraham et Ismal filius ejus : 27 et omnes viri domus illius, tam vernaculi, quam emptitii et alienigen pariter circumcisi sunt.