Genesis 17:11-21

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.[a] 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.”

Cross References 29

  • 1. Exodus 12:48; Deuteronomy 10:16
  • 2. S Genesis 9:12; Romans 4:11
  • 3. S Genesis 9:12
  • 4. Genesis 21:4; Leviticus 12:3; Joshua 5:2; S Luke 1:59; Luke 2:21
  • 5. Exodus 12:44,48
  • 6. S Genesis 9:16
  • 7. ver 23
  • 8. Exodus 4:24-26; Exodus 12:15,19; Exodus 30:33; Leviticus 7:20,25; Leviticus 17:4; Leviticus 18:29; Leviticus 19:8; Leviticus 20:17; Numbers 9:13; Numbers 15:30; Numbers 19:13; Deuteronomy 17:12; Joshua 5:2-8; Job 38:15; Psalms 37:28
  • 9. Ezekiel 44:7
  • 10. S Genesis 11:29
  • 11. S ver 5
  • 12. S ver 6; S Isaiah 29:22; Genesis 18:10
  • 13. S ver 4; Genesis 24:60; Genesis 35:11; Galatians 4:31
  • 14. S ver 3
  • 15. Genesis 18:12; Genesis 21:6
  • 16. S Genesis 12:4
  • 17. Genesis 18:11,13; Genesis 21:7; Genesis 24:1,36; Jeremiah 20:15; Luke 1:18; Romans 4:19; Galatians 4:23; Hebrews 11:11
  • 18. S Genesis 16:15
  • 19. Genesis 21:11
  • 20. S ver 6,21; Genesis 18:14; Genesis 21:2; 1 Samuel 1:20
  • 21. S Genesis 16:11; Matthew 1:21; Luke 1:13,31
  • 22. Genesis 26:3; Genesis 50:24; Exodus 13:11; Deuteronomy 1:8
  • 23. S Genesis 9:16; S Galatians 3:16
  • 24. S Genesis 13:16; Genesis 16:10
  • 25. Genesis 25:12-16
  • 26. Genesis 25:18; Genesis 48:19; Genesis 21:18
  • 27. Exodus 34:10
  • 28. S ver 19
  • 29. Genesis 18:10,14; Genesis 21:2

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. "Isaac" means "he laughs."
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