창세기(Genesis) 17장

창세기(Genesis) 17장

1. When Abram was ninety-nine years old,
the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am
God Almighty ; walk before me and be
blameless.

2. I will confirm 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.

8. The whole land of Canaan, where you
are now an alien, 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 Abragam, “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 sing 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 same day.

27. And every male in Abraham’s
household, including those born in
his household or bought from a
foreigner, was circumcised with
him.