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17After the sun went down and darkness fell,
Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming
torch pass between the halves of the carcasses.
18 So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that
day and said, “I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt*
to the great Euphrates River—19 the land now
occupied by the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21Amorites,
Canaanites, Girgashites, and Jebusites.”
The Birth of Ishmael • GENESIS 16:1-16 /
to the Lord, who had spoken to her. She said, “You
are the God who sees me.”* She also said, “Have I
truly seen the One who sees me?” 14 So that well
was named Beer-lahai-roi (which means “well of
the Living One who sees me”). It can still be found
between Kadesh and Bered.
15 So Hagar gave Abram a son, and Abram
named him Ishmael. 16Abram was eighty-six
years old when Ishmael was born.
Abram Is Named Abraham • GENESIS 17:1-8 /
2067 or 1901 BC
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord
appeared to him and said, “I am El-Shaddai—‘God
Almighty.’ Serve me faithfully and live a blameless
life. 2 I will make a covenant with you, by which I
will guarantee to give you countless descendants.”
3At this, Abram fell face down on the ground.
Then God said to him, 4 “This is my covenant
with you: I will make you the father of a multitude of nations! 5 What’s more, I am changing
your name. It will no longer be Abram. Instead,
you will be called Abraham,* for you will be
the father of many nations. 6 I will make you extremely fruitful. Your descendants will become
many nations, and kings will be among them!
7 “I will confirm my covenant with you and
your descendants* after you, from generation to
generation. This is the everlasting covenant: I will
always be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8And I will give the entire land of
Canaan, where you now live as a foreigner, to you
and your descendants. It will be their possession
forever, and I will be their God.”
9 Then God said to Abraham, “Your responsibility
is to obey the terms of the covenant. You and all
your descendants have this continual responsibility. 10 This is the covenant that you and your
descendants must keep: Each male among you
must be circumcised. 11 You must cut off the flesh
of your foreskin as a sign of the covenant between me and you. 12 From generation to generation, every male child must be circumcised on the
eighth day after his birth. This applies not only to
members of your family but also to the servants
born in your household and the foreign-born
servants whom you have purchased. 13All must
be circumcised. Your bodies will bear the mark of
my everlasting covenant. 14Any male who fails to
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15:18 Hebrew the river of Egypt, referring either to an eastern branch
of the Nile River or to the Brook of Egypt in the Sinai (see Num 34:5).
16:13 Hebrew El-roi. 17:5 Abram means “exalted father”; Abraham
sounds like a Hebrew term that means “father of many.” 17:7 Hebrew
seed; also in 17:7b, 8, 9, 10, 19.
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The Sign of Circumcision • GENESIS 17:9-14
GOSPEL
Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not been able to
bear children for him. But she had an Egyptian
servant named Hagar. 2 So Sarai said to Abram,
“The Lord has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I
can have children through her.” And Abram
agreed with Sarai’s proposal. 3 So Sarai, Abram’s
wife, took Hagar the Egyptian servant and gave
her to Abram as a wife. (This happened ten years
after Abram had settled in the land of Canaan.)
4 So Abram had sexual relations with Hagar,
and she became pregnant. But when Hagar
knew she was pregnant, she began to treat her
mistress, Sarai, with contempt. 5 Then Sarai said
to Abram, “This is all your fault! I put my servant
into your arms, but now that she’s pregnant she
treats me with contempt. The Lord will show
who’s wrong—you or me!”
6 Abram replied, “Look, she is your servant, so
deal with her as you see fit.” Then Sarai treated
Hagar so harshly that she finally ran away.
7 The angel of the Lord found Hagar beside
a spring of water in the wilderness, along the
road to Shur. 8 The angel said to her, “Hagar, Sarai’s servant, where have you come from, and
where are you going?”
“I’m running away from my mistress, Sarai,”
she replied.
9 The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return
to your mistress, and submit to her authority.”
10 Then he added, “I will give you more descendants than you can count.”
11And the angel also said, “You are now pregnant and will give birth to a son. You are to name
him Ishmael (which means ‘God hears’), for the
Lord has heard your cry of distress. 12 This son of
yours will be a wild man, as untamed as a wild
donkey! He will raise his fist against everyone,
and everyone will be against him. Yes, he will
live in open hostility against all his relatives.”
13 Thereafter, Hagar used another name to refer
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