| 1 | After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, "Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great." |
| 2 | But Abram said, "O Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Elie'zer of Damascus?" |
| 3 | And Abram said, "Behold, thou hast given me no offspring; and a slave born in my house will be my heir." |
| 4 | And behold, the word of the LORD came to him, "This man shall not be your heir; your own son shall be your heir." |
| 5 | And he brought him outside and said, "Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them." Then he said to him, "So shall your descendants be." |
| 6 | And he believed the LORD; and he reckoned it to him as righteousness. |
| 7 | And he said to him, "I am the LORD who brought you from Ur of the Chalde'ans, to give you this land to possess." |
| 8 | But he said, "O Lord GOD, how am I to know that I shall possess it?" |
| 9 | He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a she-goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon." |
| 10 | And he brought him all these, cut them in two, and laid each half over against the other; but he did not cut the birds in two. |
| 11 | And when birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. |
| 12 | As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram; and lo, a dread and great darkness fell upon him. |
| 13 | Then the LORD said to Abram, "Know of a surety that your descendants will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs, and will be slaves there, and they will be oppressed for four hundred years; |
| 14 | but I will bring judgment on the nation which they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. |
| 15 | As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. |
| 16 | And they shall come back here in the fourth generation; for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete." |
| 17 | When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. |
| 18 | On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphra'tes, |
| 19 | the land of the Ken'ites, the Ken'izzites, the Kad'monites, |
| 20 | the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the Reph'aim, |
| 21 | the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Gir'gashites and the Jeb'usites." |
| 1 | Now Sar'ai, Abram's wife, bore him no children. She had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar; |
| 2 | and Sar'ai said to Abram, "Behold now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children; go in to my maid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her." And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sar'ai. |
| 3 | So, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, Sar'ai, Abram's wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife. |
| 4 | And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. |
| 5 | And Sar'ai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my maid to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me!" |
| 6 | But Abram said to Sar'ai, "Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her as you please." Then Sar'ai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her. |
| 7 | The angel of the LORD found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur. |
| 8 | And he said, "Hagar, maid of Sar'ai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She said, "I am fleeing from my mistress Sar'ai." |
| 9 | The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit to her." |
| 10 | The angel of the LORD also said to her, "I will so greatly multiply your descendants that they cannot be numbered for multitude." |
| 11 | And the angel of the LORD said to her, "Behold, you are with child, and shall bear a son; you shall call his name Ish'mael; because the LORD has given heed to your affliction. |
| 12 | He shall be a wild ass of a man, his hand against every man and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen." |
| 13 | So she called the name of the LORD who spoke to her, "Thou art a God of seeing"; for she said, "Have I really seen God and remained alive after seeing him?" |
| 14 | Therefore the well was called Beer-la'hai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered. |
| 15 | And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ish'mael. |
| 16 | Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ish'mael to Abram. |
| 1 | When Abram was ninety-nine years old the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. |
| 2 | And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly." |
| 3 | Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, |
| 4 | "Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. |
| 5 | No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. |
| 6 | I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come forth from you. |
| 7 | And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. |
| 8 | And I will give to you, and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God." |
| 9 | And God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. |
| 10 | This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. |
| 11 | You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. |
| 12 | He that is eight days old among you shall be circumcised; every male throughout your generations, whether born in your house, or bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring, |
| 13 | both he that is born in your house and he that is bought with your money, shall be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. |
| 14 | Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant." |
| 15 | And God said to Abraham, "As for Sar'ai your wife, you shall not call her name Sar'ai, but Sarah shall be her name. |
| 16 | I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her; I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall come from her." |
| 17 | Then Abraham fell on his face 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?" |
| 18 | And Abraham said to God, "O that Ish'mael might live in thy sight!" |
| 19 | God said, "No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. |
| 20 | As for Ish'mael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him and make him fruitful and multiply him exceedingly; he shall be the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. |
| 21 | But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year." |
| 22 | When he had finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. |
| 23 | Then Abraham took Ish'mael his son and all the slaves 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. |
| 24 | Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. |
| 25 | And Ish'mael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. |
| 26 | That very day Abraham and his son Ish'mael were circumcised; |
| 27 | and all the men of his house, those born in the house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him. |
