Genesis

割礼—立约的记号

1亚伯兰年九十九岁的时候，耶和华向他显现，对他说：「我是全能的 神。你当在我面前作完全人，

2我就与你立约，使你的后裔极其繁多。」

3亚伯兰俯伏在地； 神又对他说：

4「我与你立约：你要作多国的父。

5从此以后，你的名不再叫亚伯兰，要叫亚伯拉罕，因为我已立你作多国的父。

6我必使你的后裔极其繁多；国度从你而立，君王从你而出。

7我要与你并你世世代代的后裔坚立我的约，作永远的约，是要作你和你后裔的 神。

8我要将你现在寄居的地，就是迦南全地，赐给你和你的后裔永远为业，我也必作他们的 神。」

9神又对亚伯拉罕说：「你和你的后裔必世世代代遵守我的约。

10你们所有的男子都要受割礼；这就是我与你并你的后裔所立的约，是你们所当遵守的。

11你们都要受割礼；这是我与你们立约的证据。

12你们世世代代的男子，无论是家里生的，是在你后裔之外用银子从外人买的，生下来第八日，都要受割礼。

13你家里生的和你用银子买的，都必须受割礼。这样，我的约就立在你们肉体上作永远的约。

14但不受割礼的男子必从民中剪除，因他背了我的约。」

15神又对亚伯拉罕说：「你的妻子撒莱不可再叫撒莱，她的名要叫撒拉。

16我必赐福给她，也要使你从她得一个儿子。我要赐福给她，她也要作多国之母；必有百姓的君王从她而出。」

17亚伯拉罕就俯伏在地喜笑，心里说：「一百岁的人还能得孩子吗？撒拉已经九十岁了，还能生养吗？」

18亚伯拉罕对 神说：「但愿以实玛利活在你面前。」

19神说：「不然，你妻子撒拉要给你生一个儿子，你要给他起名叫以撒。我要与他坚定所立的约，作他后裔永远的约。

20至于以实玛利，我也应允你：我必赐福给他，使他昌盛，极其繁多。他必生十二个族长；我也要使他成为大国。

21到明年这时节，撒拉必给你生以撒，我要与他坚定所立的约。」

22神和亚伯拉罕说完了话，就离开他上升去了。

23正当那日，亚伯拉罕遵着 神的命，给他的儿子以实玛利和家里的一切男子，无论是在家里生的，是用银子买的，都行了割礼。

24亚伯拉罕受割礼的时候年九十九岁。

25他儿子以实玛利受割礼的时候年十三岁。

26正当那日，亚伯拉罕和他儿子以实玛利一同受了割礼。

27家里所有的人，无论是在家里生的，是用银子从外人买的，也都一同受了割礼。

1And after he began to be ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to him: and said unto him: I am the Almighty God: walk before me, and be perfect.

2And I will make my covenant between me and thee: and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

3Abram fell flat on his face.

4And God said to him: I AM, and my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.

5Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.

6And I will make thee increase, exceedingly, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.

7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

8And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God.

9Again God said to Abraham: And thou therefore shalt keep my covenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations.

10This is my covenant which you shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised:

11And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.

12An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock:

13And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

14The male, whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.

15God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not call Sarai, but Sara.

16And I will bless her, and of her I will give thee a son, whom I will bless, and he shall become nations, and kings of people shall spring from him.

17Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, saying in his heart: Shall a son, thinkest thou, be born to him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sara that is ninety years old bring forth?

18And he said to God: O that Ismael may live before thee.

19And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for a perpetual covenant, and with his seed after him.

20And as for Ismael I have also heard thee. Behold, I will bless him, and increase, and multiply him exceedingly: he shall beget twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation.

21But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sara shall bring forth to thee at this time in the next year.

22And when he had left off speaking with him, God went up from Abraham.

23And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.

24Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

25And Ismael his son was full thirteen years old at the time of his circumcision.

26The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.

27And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers were circumcised with him.