1. And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.
2. And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
3. Abram tell flat on his face.
4. And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
5. Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.
6. And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
7. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy sad after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8. And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.
9. Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
10. This is my covenant which you shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised:
11. And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a h sign of the covenant between me and you.
12. An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock:
13. And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.