Genesis 17

vayehi avram ben-tishim shanah vetesha shanim vayyera Adonai el-avram vayyomer elayw ani-el shadday hithallekh lefanay vehyeh tamim

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, GOD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Walk in My ways and be blameless.

ve'ettenah veriti beni uvenekha ve'arbeh otekha bimod me'od

I will establish My covenant between Me and you, and I will make you exceedingly numerous.”

vayyippol avram al-panayw vayedabber itto elohim lemor

Abram threw himself on his face; and God spoke to him further,

ani hinneh veriti ittakh vehayita le'av hamon goyim

“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You shall be the father of a multitude of nations.

velo-yiqqare od et-shimkha avram vehayah shimkha avraham ki av-hamon goyim netattikha

And you shall no longer be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I make you the father of a multitude of nations.

vehifreti otekha bimod me'od unetattikha legoyim umelakhim mimmekha yetse'u

I will make you exceedingly fertile, and make nations of you; and kings shall come forth from you.

vahaqimoti et-beriti beni uvenekha uven zarakha akharekha ledorotam livrit olam lihyot lekha lelohim ulezarakha akharekha

I will maintain My covenant between Me and you, and your offspring to come, as an everlasting covenant throughout the ages, to be God to you and to your offspring to come.

venatatti lekha ulezarakha akharekha et erets megurekha et kol-erets kena'an la'akhuzzat olam vehayiti lahem lelohim

I assign the land you sojourn in to you and your offspring to come, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting holding. I will be their God.”

vayyomer elohim el-avraham ve'attah et-beriti tishmor attah vezarakha akharekha ledorotam

God further said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring to come throughout the ages shall keep My covenant.

zot beriti asher tishmeru beni uvenekhem uven zarakha akharekha himmol lakhem kol-zakhar

Such shall be the covenant between Me and you and your offspring to follow that you shall keep: every male among you shall be circumcised.

unemaltem et besar orlatkhem vehayah le'ot berit beni uvenekhem

You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.

uven-shemonat yamim yimmol lakhem kol-zakhar ledorotekhem yelid bayit umiqnat-kesef mikkol ben-nekhar asher lo mizzarakha hu

And throughout the generations, every male among you shall be circumcised at the age of eight days. As for the homeborn slave and the one bought from an outsider who is not of your offspring,

himmol yimmol yelid betekha umiqnat kaspekha vehayetah veriti bivsarkhem livrit olam

they must be circumcised, homeborn and purchased alike. Thus shall My covenant be marked in your flesh as an everlasting pact.

ve'arel zakhar asher lo-yimmol et-besar orlato venikhretah hannefesh hahiv me'ammeha et-beriti hefar

And if any male who is uncircumcised fails to circumcise the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from kin; he has broken My covenant.”

vayyomer elohim el-avraham saray ishtekha lo-tiqra et-shemah saray ki sarah shemah

And God said to Abraham, “As for your wife Sarai, you shall not call her Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah.

uverakhti otah vegam natatti mimmennah lekha ben uverakhtiha vehayetah legoyim malkhe ammim mimmennah yihyu

I will bless her; indeed, I will give you a son by her. I will bless her so that she shall give rise to nations; rulers of peoples shall issue from her.”

vayyippol avraham al-panayw vayyitskhaq vayyomer belibbo halleven me'ah-shanah yivvaled ve'im-sarah havat-tishim shanah teled

Abraham threw himself on his face and laughed, as he said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old, or can Sarah bear a child at ninety?”

vayyomer avraham el-ha'elohim lu yishma'el yikhyeh lefanekha

And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live by Your favor!”

vayyomer elohim aval sarah ishtekha yoledet lekha ben veqarata et-shemo yitskhaq vahaqimoti et-beriti itto livrit olam lezaro akharayw

God said, “Nevertheless, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac; and I will maintain My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring to come.

uleyishma'el shematikha hinneh berakhti oto vehifreti oto vehirbeti oto bimod me'od shenem-asar nesi'im yolid unetattiv legoy gadol

As for Ishmael, I have heeded you. I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile and exceedingly numerous. He shall be the father of twelve chieftains, and I will make of him a great nation.

ve'et-beriti aqim et-yitskhaq asher teled lekha sarah lammo'ed hazzeh bashanah ha'akheret

But My covenant I will maintain with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year.”

vayekhal ledabber itto vayya'al elohim me'al avraham

Done speaking with him, God was gone from Abraham.

vayyiqqakh avraham et-yishma'el beno ve'et kol-yelide veto ve'et kol-miqnat kaspo kol-zakhar be'anshe bet avraham vayyamol et-besar orlatam be'etsem hayyom hazzeh ka'asher dibber itto elohim

Then Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all his homeborn slaves and all those he had bought, every male in Abraham’s household, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins on that very day, as God had spoken to him.

ve'avraham ben-tishim vatesha shanah behimmolo besar orlato

Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin,

veyishma'el beno ben-shelosh esreh shanah behimmolo et besar orlato

and his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

be'etsem hayyom hazzeh nimmol avraham veyishma'el beno

Thus Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on that very day;

vekhol-anshe veto yelid bayit umiqnat-kesef me'et ben-nekhar nimmolu itto

and all his household, his homeborn slaves and those that had been bought from outsiders, were circumcised with him.