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No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations.
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And God said to Abraham: “As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
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Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
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Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old? And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”
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And Abraham said to God, “Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!”
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Then He finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
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So Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very same day, as God had said to him.
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Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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That very same day Abraham was circumcised, and his son Ishmael;
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So Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah and said, “Quickly, make ready three measures of fine meal; knead it and make cakes.”
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And Abraham ran to the herd, took a tender and good calf, gave it to a young man, and he hastened to prepare it.
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Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
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And the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?’
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Abraham Intercedes for Sodom
Then the men rose from there and looked toward Sodom, and Abraham went with them to send them on the way.
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And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
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since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
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For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice, that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him.”
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Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord.
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And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
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Then Abraham answered and said, “Indeed now, I who am but dust and ashes have taken it upon myself to speak to the Lord:
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So the Lord went His way as soon as He had finished speaking with Abraham; and Abraham returned to his place.
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And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had stood before the Lord.
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And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
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Abraham and Abimelech
And Abraham journeyed from there to the South, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.
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Now Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
