Baverset oyo Eyebani Mpenza ewuti na Genesis 17

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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.

No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations.

I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations.

God said, “No, but your wife Sarah shall bear you a son, and you shall name him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding, and I will be their God.”

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this season next year.”

Throughout your generations every male among you shall be circumcised when he is eight days old, including the slave born in your house and the one bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring. Both the slave born in your house and the one bought with your money must be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.