3. Abram bowed with his face to the ground, and God said:
6. I will give you a lot of descendants, and in the future they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings.
7. I will always keep the promise I have made to you and your descendants, because I am your God and their God.
8. I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family for ever, and I will be their God.
9. Abraham, you and all future members of your family must promise to obey me.
14. Any man who isn't circumcised hasn't kept his promise to me and cannot be one of my people.
15. Abraham, your wife's name will now be Sarah instead of Sarai.
16. I will bless her, and you will have a son by her. She will become the mother of nations, and some of her descendants will even be kings.
17. Abraham bowed with his face to the ground and thought, “I am almost a hundred years old. How can I become a father? And Sarah is ninety. How can she have a child?” So he started laughing.