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Genesis 17
Evangelical Heritage Version
Genesis 17
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Covenant of Circumcision
17 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. 2 I will make my covenant between me and you, and I will make your descendants very numerous.”
3 Abram fell on his face. God spoke with him. He said, 4 “As for me, this is my covenant with you. You will be the father of many nations. 5 Your name will not be Abram anymore, but your name will be Abraham,[a] for I have made you the father of a large group of nations. 6 I will make you extremely fruitful, and I will produce nations from you. Kings will come out of you. 7 I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you as an everlasting covenant throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you. 8 I will give the land where you are living as an alien, all the land of Canaan, to you and to your descendants after you as a permanent possession. I will be their God.”
9 God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, a covenant between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. 11 You shall be circumcised by cutting the foreskin off your flesh. It will be a sign of the covenant between me and you. 12 Every boy among you who is eight days old shall be circumcised, every male throughout your generations, whether he is born in your house or purchased with money[b] from any foreigner who is not descended from you. 13 Every male who is born in your house or one who is purchased with your money must be circumcised. My covenant will be marked on your flesh as an everlasting covenant. 14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised by removing the foreskin from his flesh, that person must be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.”
15 God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai anymore, but her name will be Sarah.[c] 16 I will bless her and even give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of many peoples will come from her.”
17 Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to someone who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?” 18 And Abraham said to God, “Oh, let Ishmael live in your presence!”
19 But God said, “No, Sarah, your wife, will bear a son for you. You shall name him Isaac.[d] I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
20 “As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Yes, I have blessed him. I will make him fruitful and will multiply him very greatly. He will become the father of twelve chiefs, and I will make him into a great nation. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear for you at this set time next year.”
22 When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham. 23 Abraham took his son Ishmael, along with every male in Abraham’s house, all those who were born in his house, and all those who were purchased with his money, and he circumcised them by cutting off the foreskin from their flesh. He did this on that very day, just as God had said to him. 24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised. 25 Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when the foreskin of his flesh was circumcised. 26 On the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised. 27 All the men of his house, those born in the house as well as those purchased with money from a foreigner, were circumcised along with him.
Footnotes
- Genesis 17:5 Abram and Abraham are variants of the same name. Both mean exalted father, but Abraham sounds more like the Hebrew for father of a multitude.
- Genesis 17:12 Literally silver. There were no coins at this time. Silver or gold were weighed out to make payments.
- Genesis 17:15 Sarai and Sarah are variants of the same name. Both mean princess.
- Genesis 17:19 Isaac means he laughs.
Génesis 17
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Génesis 17
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El pacto y la circuncisión
17 Cuando Abram tenía noventa y nueve años, el Señor se apareció y dijo:
—Yo soy el Dios Todopoderoso. Anda delante de mí y sé íntegro. 2 Así confirmaré mi pacto contigo y multiplicaré tu descendencia en gran manera.
3 Al oír que Dios le hablaba, Abram cayó rostro en tierra y Dios continuó diciendo:
4 —Este es el pacto que establezco contigo: Tú serás el padre de una multitud de naciones. 5 Ya no te llamarás Abram,[a] sino que de ahora en adelante tu nombre será Abraham,[b] porque te he confirmado como padre de muchas naciones. 6 Te haré tan fecundo que de ti saldrán reyes y naciones. 7 Estableceré mi pacto contigo y con tu descendencia, como pacto eterno, por todas las generaciones. Yo seré tu Dios y el Dios de tus descendientes. 8 A ti y a tu descendencia daré, en posesión perpetua, toda la tierra de Canaán, donde ahora vives como extranjero. Y yo seré su Dios.
9 Dios también dijo a Abraham:
—Cumple con mi pacto, tú y toda tu descendencia, por todas las generaciones. 10 Y este es el pacto que establezco contigo y con tu descendencia, el cual todos deberán cumplir: Todos los varones entre ustedes deberán ser circuncidados. 11 Circuncidarán la carne de su prepucio; esa será la señal del pacto entre nosotros. 12 Todos los varones de cada generación deberán ser circuncidados a los ocho días de nacidos, tanto los niños nacidos en casa como los que hayan sido comprados por dinero a un extranjero y que, por lo tanto, no sean de la estirpe de ustedes. 13 Todos sin excepción, tanto el nacido en casa como el que haya sido comprado por dinero, deberán ser circuncidados. De esta manera mi pacto quedará como una marca indeleble en la carne de ustedes, como un pacto eterno. 14 Pero el varón incircunciso, al que no se le haya cortado la carne del prepucio, será eliminado de su pueblo por quebrantar mi pacto.
15 También dijo Dios a Abraham:
—A Saray, tu esposa, ya no la llamarás Saray, sino que su nombre será Sara.[c] 16 Yo la bendeciré y por medio de ella te daré un hijo. Tanto la bendeciré que será madre de naciones y de ella surgirán reyes de pueblos.
17 Entonces Abraham inclinó el rostro hasta el suelo y se rio de pensar: «¿Acaso puede un hombre tener un hijo a los cien años y Sara ser madre a los noventa?». 18 Por eso le dijo a Dios:
—¡Concédele a Ismael vivir bajo tu bendición!
19 A lo que Dios contestó:
—¡Pero es Sara, tu esposa, la que te dará un hijo, al que llamarás Isaac![d] Yo estableceré mi pacto con él y con sus descendientes, como pacto perpetuo. 20 En cuanto a Ismael, ya te he escuchado. Yo lo bendeciré, lo haré fecundo y le daré una descendencia numerosa. Él será el padre de doce gobernantes. Haré de él una nación muy grande. 21 Pero mi pacto lo estableceré con Isaac, el hijo que te dará Sara de aquí a un año, por estos días.
22 Cuando Dios terminó de hablar con Abraham, subió y se retiró de su presencia.
23 Ese mismo día Abraham tomó a su hijo Ismael, a los criados nacidos en su casa, a los que había comprado con su dinero, a todos los otros varones que había en su casa y los circuncidó, tal como Dios se lo había mandado. 24 Abraham tenía noventa y nueve años cuando fue circuncidado, 25 mientras que su hijo Ismael tenía trece. 26 Así que ambos fueron circuncidados el mismo día 27 junto con todos los varones de su casa, tanto los nacidos en ella como los comprados a extranjeros.
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