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and he who is bought with your money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be in
your flesh for an everlasting covenant. The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised
in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my
covenant.”
Elohim said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name
Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by
her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will
come from her.”
Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be
born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give
birth?” Abraham said to Elohim, “Oh that Yishmael might live before you!”
Elohim said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his
name Yitshak [laughter]. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting
covenant for his seed after him. As for Yishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have
blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will
become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation. But my
covenant I establish with Yitshak, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next
year.”
When he finished talking with him, Elohim went up from Abraham. Abraham

took Yishmael 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 foreskin in the same day, as Elohim had said to him. Abraham was ninety-nine
years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. Yishmael, his son, was
thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. In the same day
both Abraham and Yishmael, his son, were circumcised. All the men of his house, those
born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with
him.
Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the
heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite
him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to
the earth, and said, “Adonai, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go
away from your servant. Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest
yourselves under the tree. I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart.
After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.”
They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”
Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three measures
of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.” Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender
and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it. He took butter, milk, and
the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree,
and they ate.
They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?”
He said, “See, in the tent.”

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