Genesis 17
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Genesis 17:4-14

4“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, And you will be the father of a 1multitude of nations.5No longer shall you be named 2Abram, But 3your name shall be 4Abraham; For 5I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. 6I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and 6kings will come from you. 7I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your 7descendants after you throughout their generations as an 8everlasting covenant, 9to be God to you and 10to your 11descendants after you. 8And 12I will give to you and to your 13descendants after you the land where you live as a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and 14I will be their God.”

9God said further to Abraham, “Now as for you, 15you shall keep My covenant, you and your 16descendants after you throughout their generations. 1017This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your 18descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised. 11And 19you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you. 12And every male among you who is 20eight days old shall be circumcised throughout your generations, including a slave who is born in the house or who is bought with money from any foreigner, who is not of your 21descendants. 13A slave who is born in your house or 22who is bought with your money shall certainly be circumcised; so My covenant shall be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant. 14But as for an uncircumcised male, one who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be 23cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

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Notes

  1. 1. Genesis 17:4 Gen 35:11; 48:19 ↩
  2. 2. Genesis 17:5 I.e., exalted father ↩
  3. 3. Genesis 17:5 Neh 9:7 ↩
  4. 4. Genesis 17:5 I.e., father of a multitude ↩
  5. 5. Genesis 17:5 Rom 4:17 ↩
  6. 6. Genesis 17:6 Gen 17:16; 35:11 ↩
  7. 7. Genesis 17:7 Lit seed ↩
  8. 8. Genesis 17:7 Gen 17:13, 19; Ps 105:9, 10; Luke 1:55 ↩
  9. 9. Genesis 17:7 Gen 26:24; Lev 11:45; 26:12, 45; Heb 11:16 ↩
  10. 10. Genesis 17:7 Gen 28:13; Gal 3:16 ↩
  11. 11. Genesis 17:7 Lit seed ↩
  12. 12. Genesis 17:8 Gen 12:7; 13:15, 17; Acts 7:5 ↩
  13. 13. Genesis 17:8 Lit seed ↩
  14. 14. Genesis 17:8 Ex 6:7; 29:45; Lev 26:12; Deut 29:13; Rev 21:7 ↩
  15. 15. Genesis 17:9 Ex 19:5 ↩
  16. 16. Genesis 17:9 Lit seed ↩
  17. 17. Genesis 17:10 John 7:22; Acts 7:8; Rom 4:11 ↩
  18. 18. Genesis 17:10 Lit seed ↩
  19. 19. Genesis 17:11 Ex 12:48; Deut 10:16; Acts 7:8; Rom 4:11 ↩
  20. 20. Genesis 17:12 Lev 12:3 ↩
  21. 21. Genesis 17:12 Lit seed ↩
  22. 22. Genesis 17:13 Ex 12:44 ↩
  23. 23. Genesis 17:14 Ex 4:24-26 ↩

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