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13 You must certainly circumcise[a] the servant born in your house and the one bought from any foreigner.[b] And my covenant shall be with your flesh as an everlasting covenant. 14 And as for any uncircumcised male who has not circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his[c] people. He has broken my covenant. 15 And God said to Abraham, “as for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 17:13 Literally “circumcising you will circumcise”
  2. Genesis 17:13 Literally “those born of house and acquisition of money from every son of a foreigner”
  3. Genesis 17:14 Literally “her”; the reference is still to a male; the pronoun is feminine because “person” (nephesh) is grammatically feminine