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Genesis 16

    ²She said to her husband: Behold, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing: go in unto my handmaid, it may be I may have children of her at least. And when he agreed to her request,

    ³She took Agar the Egyptian her handmaid, ten years after they first dwelt in the land of Chanaan, and gave her to her husband to wife.

    ⁴And he went in to her. But she, perceiving that she was with child, despised her mistress.

    ⁵And Sarai said to Abram: Thou dost unjustly with me: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom, and she perceiving herself to be with child, despiseth me. The Lord judge between me and thee.

    ⁶And Abram made answer, and said to her: Behold thy handmaid is in thy own hand, use her its it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai afflicted her, she ran away.

    ⁷And the angel of the Lord having found her, by a fountain of water in the wilderness, which is in the way to Sur in the desert,

    ⁸He said to her: Agar, handmaid of Sarai, whence comest thou? and whither goest thou? And she answered: I flee from the face of Sarai, my mistress.

    ⁹And the angel of the Lord said to her: Return to thy mistress, and humble thyself under her hand.

    ¹⁰And again he said: I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, and it shall not be numbered for multitude.

    ¹¹And again: Behold, said he, thou art with child, and thou shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Ismael, because the Lord hath heard thy affliction.

    ¹²He shall be a wild man: his hand will be against all men, and all men's hands against him: and he shall pitch his tents over against all his brethren.

    ¹³And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her: Thou the God who hast seen me. For she said: Verily here have I seen the hinder parts of him that seeth me.

    ¹⁴Therefore she called that well, The well of him that liveth and seeth me. The same is between Cades and Bared.

    ¹⁵And Agar brought forth a son to Abram: who called his name Ismael.

    ¹⁶Abram was fourscore and six years old when Agar brought him forth Ismael.

Genesis 17

    ²And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

    ³Abram tell flat on his face.

    ⁴And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father. of many nations.

    ⁵Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.

    ⁶And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

    ⁷And 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.

    ⁸And 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.

    ⁹Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

    ¹⁰This 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:

    ¹¹And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a h sign of the covenant between me and you.

    ¹²An 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:

    ¹³And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

    ¹⁴The male, whose dash of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

    ¹⁵God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

    ¹⁶And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shell become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

    ¹⁷Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

    ¹⁸And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

    ¹⁹And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

    ²⁰And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

    ²¹But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

    ²²And when he had left oil speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

    ²³And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.

    ²⁴Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

    ²⁵And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.

    ²⁷And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers were circumcised with him.

    ²⁸The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.

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²⁷You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery.

    ²⁸But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

    ²⁹And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

    ³⁰And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body be cast into hell.

    ³¹And it hath been said, Whoseoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.

    ³²But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting for the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

    ³³Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, Thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord.

    ³⁴But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God:

    ³⁵Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king:

    ³⁶Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.

    ³⁷But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.

    ³⁸You have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.

    ³⁹But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other:

    ⁴⁰And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.

    ⁴¹And whosoever will force thee one mile, go with him other two,

    ⁴²Give to him that asketh of thee and from him that would borrow of thee turn not away.

    ⁴³You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thy enemy.

    ⁴⁴But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:

    ⁴⁵That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.

    ⁴⁶For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this?

    ⁴⁷And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this?

    ⁴⁸Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.