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Book of Genesis 19

her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me,
her, she ran away. and be perfect.
7 And the angel of the Lord having found her, 2 And I will make my covenant between me
by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
is in the way to Sur in the desert, 3 Abram fell flat on his face.
8 He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, 4 And God said to him: I am, and my
whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a fa-
And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, ther of many nations.
my mistress. 5 Neither shall thy name be called any more
9 And the angel of the Lord said to her: Re- Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: be-
turn to thy mistress, and humble thyself under cause I have made thee a father of many nations.
her hand. 6 And I will make thee increase exceedingly,
10 And again he said: I will multiply thy seed and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall
exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for come out of thee.
multitude.
7 And I will establish my covenant between
11 And again: Behold, said he, thou art with
me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in
child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou
their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to
shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath
be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
heard thy affliction.
8 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed,
12 He shall be a wild man: his hand will be
the land of thy sojournment, all the land of
against all men, and all men’s hands against him:
Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will
and he shall pitch his tents over against all his
be their God.
brethren.
9 Again God said to Abraham: And thou
13 And she called the name of the Lord that
therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed
spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen
after thee in their generations.
me. For she said: Verily, here have I seen the
10 This is my covenant which you shall ob-
hinder parts of him that seeth me.
serve between me and you, and thy seed after
14 Therefore she called that well, the well of
thee: All the male kind of you shall be circum-
him that liveth and seeth me. The same is be-
cised.
tween Cades and Barad.
11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your
15 And Agar brought forth a son to Abram:
foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant
who called his name Ismael.
between me and you.
16 Abram was four score and six years old
12 An infant of eight days old shall be circum-
when Agar brought him forth Ismael.
cised among you, every manchild in your genera-
tions: he that is born in the house, as well as the
Chapter 17 bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whoso-
ever is not of your stock:
And after he began to be ninety and nine years 13 And my covenant shall be in your flesh for
old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto a perpetual covenant.