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 needs by circumciſed: and my couenant ſhall be in your fleſh, for an euerlaſting couenant.

And the vncircumciſed man-child, whoſe fleſh of his foreſkinne is not circumciſed, that ſoule ſhall be cut off from his people: hee hath broken my couenant.

¶ And God ſaid vnto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou ſhalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah ſhall her name be.

And I will bleſſe her, and giue thee a ſonne alſo of her: yea I wil bleſſe her, and ‖ ſhe ſhalbe a mother of nations; Kings of people ſhall be of her.

Then Abraham fell vpon his face, and laughed, and ſaid in his heart, Shall a child be borne vnto him that is an hundred yeeres old? and ſhal Sarah that is ninetie yeeres old, beare?

And Abraham ſaid vnto God, O that Iſhmael might liue before thee.

And God ſaid, * Sarah thy wife, ſhall beare thee a ſonne in deede, and thou ſhalt call his name Iſaac: and I will eſtabliſh my couenant with him, for an euerlaſting couenant, and with his ſeed after him.

And as for Iſhmael, I haue heard thee: behold, I haue bleſſed him, and will make him fruitfull, and will multiplie him exceedingly: * Twelue princes ſhall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

But my couenant wil I eſtabliſh with Iſaac, which Sarah ſhall beare vnto thee, at this ſet time, in the next yeere.

And he left off talking with him, and God went vp from Abraham.

¶ And Abraham tooke Iſhmael his ſonne, and all that were borne in his houſe, and all that were bought with his money, euery male, among the men of Abrahams houſe, and circumciſed the fleſh of their foreſkinne, in the ſelfeſame day, as God had ſaid vnto him.

And Abraham was ninety yeeres old and nine, when he was circumciſed in the fleſh of his foreſkinne.

And Iſhmael his ſonne was thirteene yeeres old, when he was circumciſed in the fleſh of his foreſkinne.

In the ſelfe ſame day was Abraham circumciſed, and Iſhmael his ſonne.

And all the men of his houſe, borne in the houſe, and bought with money of the ſtranger, were circumciſed with him.

Nd the * LORD appeared vnto him, in the plaines of Mamre: and he ſate in the tent doore, in the heat of the day.

And he lift vp his eyes and looked, and loe, three men ſtood by him: and when he ſaw them, hee ranne to meete them from the tent doore, and bowed himſelfe toward the ground,

And ſaid, My Lord, If now I haue found fauour in thy ſight, paſſe not away, I pray thee, frõ thy ſeruant:

Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched and waſh your feete, and reſt your ſelues vnder the tree:

And I will fetch a morſell of bread; and † comfort ye your hearts, after that you ſhall paſſe on: for therefore † are you come to your ſeruant. And they ſaid; So doe, as thou haſt ſaid.

And Abraham haſtened into the tent, vnto Sarah, ⁊ ſaid; † Make ready quickly three meaſures of fine meale, knead it, and make cakes vpon the hearth.

And Abraham ranne vnto the heard, and fetcht a calfe, tender and good, and gaue it vnto a yong man: and he haſted to dreſſe it.

And he tooke butter, and milke, and the calfe which he had dreſſed, and ſet it before them; and he ſtood by them vnder the tree: and they did eate.

¶ And they ſaid vnto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he ſaid, Behold in the tent.

And he ſaid, I will certainly returne vnto thee according to the time of life; and loe, * Sarah thy wife ſhall haue a ſonne. And Sarah heard it in the tent doore, which was behind him.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old, and well ſtricken in age: and it ceaſed to be with sarah after the maner of women.

Therefore Sarah laughed within her ſelfe, ſaying, After I am waxed old, ſhall I haue pleaſure, my * lord being old alſo?

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