{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/genesis/17","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T10:14:40.246Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Genesis","bookSlug":"genesis","chapter":17,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":16,"nextChapter":18,"totalChapters":50,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, 'I am God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"And Abram falleth upon his face, and God speaketh with him, saying,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I — lo, My covenant is with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"'And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And God saith unto Abraham, 'And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"this is My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you is to be circumcised;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"'And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"he is certainly circumcised who is born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And God saith unto Abraham, 'Sarai thy wife — thou dost not call her name Sarai, for Sarah is her name;"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"and I have blessed her, and have also given to thee a son from her; and I have blessed her, and she hath become nations — kings of peoples are from her.'"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, 'To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah — daughter of ninety years — bear?'"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And Abraham saith unto God, 'O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"and God saith, 'Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money — every male among the men of Abraham's house — and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And Abraham is a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"and Ishmael his son is a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"and all the men of his house — born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger — have been circumcised with him."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 17 (YLT)","markdown":"[Genesis 17](https://primebible.com/ylt/genesis/17)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/genesis/17 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}