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Iaac is promied.

¶ And God aid unto Abraham, Thou halt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy eed after thee in their generations.

This is my covenant, which ye hall keep, between me and you and thy eed after thee; Every man child among you hall be circumcied.

And ye hall circumcie the fleh of your forekin; and it hall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

And † he that is eight days old hall be circumcied among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the houe, or bought with money of any tranger, which is not of thy eed.

He that is born in thy houe, and he that is bought with thy money, mut needs be circumcied: and my covenant hall be in your fleh for an everlating covenant.

And the uncircumcied man child whoe fleh of his forekin is not circumcied, that oul hall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

¶ And God aid unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou halt not call her name Sarai, but ‖ Sarah hall her name be.

And I will bles her, and give thee a on alo of her: yea, I will bles her, and he hall be a mother of nations; kings of people hall be of her.

Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and aid in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and hall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

And Abraham aid unto God, O that Ihmael might live before thee!

And God aid, Sarah thy wife hall bear thee a on indeed; and thou halt call his name Iaac: and I will etablih my covenant with him for an everlating covenant, and with his eed after him.

And as for Ihmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have bleed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes hall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

But my covenant will I etablih with Iaac, which Sarah hall bear unto thee at this et time in the next year.

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

¶ And Abraham took Ihmael his on, and all that were born in his houe, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's houe; and circumcied the fleh of their forekin in the elfame day, as God had aid unto him.

And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcied in the fleh of his forekin.

And Ihmael his on was thirteen years old, when he was circumcied in the fleh of his forekin.

In the elfame day was Abraham circumcied, and Ihmael his on.

And all the men of his houe, born in the houe, and bought with money of the tranger, were circumcied with him.

1 Abraham entertaineth three angels. 9 The promie of Iaac is renewed, at which Sarah laugheth, and is reproved. 17 The definition of Sodom is revealed to Abraham, 23 who trongly interceded for the inhabitants of it.

the appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he at in the tent door in the heat of the day;

And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men tood by him: and when he aw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himelf toward the ground,

And aid, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy ight, pas not away, I pray thee, from thy ervant:

Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wah your feet, and ret yourelves under the tree:

And I will fetch a morel of bread, and † comfort ye your hearts; after that ye hall pas on: for therefore † are ye come to your ervant. And they aid, So do, as thou hat aid.

And Abraham hatened into the tent unto Sarah, and aid, † Make ready quickly three meaures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

And Abraham ran unto the herd, and [sic]fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hated to dres it.

And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dreed, and et it before them; and he tood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

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

And he aid, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife hall have a on. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well tricken in age; and it ceaed to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Therefore Sarah laughed within her-