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Abraham.

CHAP. XVII.

ND after that he began to be nyntie and nyne yeares old, our Lord appeared vnto him, and said vnto him: I am the God Almightie: walke before me, and be perfect. And I wil make my couenant between me and thee: and I wil multiplie thee exceedingly. Abram fel flat on his face. And God said to him: I am, and my couenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of manie Nations. Neither shal thy name be called any more Abram; but thou shalt be called Abraham: because a father of ″ many nations I haue made thee. And I wil make thee encrease exceedingly, and I wil make thee into nations, and Kings shal come forth of thee. And I wil establish my couenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations by a perpetual couenant: to be thy God, and thy seeds after thee. And I wil giue to thee, and to thy seed the land of thy peregrination, al the land of Chanaan for a perpetual possession, and I wil be their God. Againe God said to Abraham: And thou therfore shalt keep my couenant, and thy seed after thee in their generations. This is my couenant which you shal obserue between me and you, and thy seed after thee: Al the malekind of you ″ shal be circumcised: and you shal circumcise the flesh of your prepuce, that it may be for a signe of the couenant between me and you. An infant of eight dayes shal be circumcised among you, al male-kind in your generations: as wel the homebred shal be circumcised, as the bought seruant of whosoeuer he is, not of your stocke: and my couenant shal be in your flesh for a perpetual couenant. The male, whose flesh of his prepuce shal not be circumcised, that soule ″ shal be destroied out of his people: because he hath broken my couenant. God said also to Abraham: Sarai thy wife thou shalt not cal Sarai, but Sara. And I wil blesse her, and of her I wil giue thee a sonne, whom I wil blesse, and he shal be into Nations, and Kings of peoples shal spring of him. Abraham fel vpon his face, and laughed, saying in his hart: Shal trowest thou to him that is an hundred yeare old a sonne be borne? and Sara that is nyntie yeares old shal she beare? And he said to God: I would that Ismael may liue before thee. And God said to Abraham: Sara thy wife shal beare thee a Rh