Genesis 17:5

Contemporary English Version

^4-5^(A) I promise that you will be the father of many nations. So now I'm changing your name from Abram to Abraham.^[a]

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Footnotes

17.4,5 Abraham: In Hebrew “Abraham” sounds like “father of many nations.”

Genesis 17:5 in all English translations

Genesis 17:7-8

Contemporary English Version

⁷^(A) I will always keep the promise I have made to you and your descendants, because I am your God and their God. ⁸^(B) I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family forever, and I will be their God.

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