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- 0:00SPEAKER_00: Genesis seventeen Circumcision Proof of the Agreement When Abram was ninety nine years old, the Lord appeared to him.
- 0:12SPEAKER_00: He said, I am God all powerful.
- 0:16SPEAKER_00: Obey me and live the right way.
- 0:18SPEAKER_00: If you do this, I will prepare an agreement between us.
- 0:23SPEAKER_00: I will promise to make your people a great nation.
- 0:28SPEAKER_00: Then Abram bowed down before God.
- 0:31SPEAKER_00: God said to him, This is my part of our agreement.
- 0:36SPEAKER_00: I will make you the father of many nations.
- 0:40SPEAKER_00: I will change your name from Abram to Abraham because I am making you the father of many nations.
- 0:48SPEAKER_00: I will give you many descendants.
- 0:52SPEAKER_00: New nations and kings will come from you, and I will prepare an agreement between me and you.
- 1:00SPEAKER_00: This agreement will also be for all your descendants.
- 1:05SPEAKER_00: It will continue forever.
- 1:08SPEAKER_00: I will be your God and the God of all of your descendants, and I will give this land to you and to all of your descendants.
- 1:19SPEAKER_00: I will give you the land you are traveling through the land of Canaan.
- 1:25SPEAKER_00: I will give you this land forever and I will be your God.
- 1:29SPEAKER_00: Then God said to Abraham, Now this is your part of the agreement.
- 1:36SPEAKER_00: You and all your descendants will obey my agreement.
- 1:41SPEAKER_00: This is my agreement that all of you must obey.
- 1:46SPEAKER_00: This is the agreement between me and you and all of your descendants.
- 1:52SPEAKER_00: Every male must be circumcised.
- 1:56SPEAKER_00: You will cut the skin to show that you follow the agreement between me and you.
- 2:04SPEAKER_00: When the baby boy is eight days old, you will circumcise him.
- 2:10SPEAKER_00: Every boy born among your people and every boy who is a slave of your people must be circumcised, so every baby boy in your nation will be circumcised.
- 2:27SPEAKER_00: Every boy who is born from your family or bought as a slave will be circumcised.
- 2:36SPEAKER_00: Abraham, this is the agreement between you and me.
- 2:41SPEAKER_00: Any male who is not circumcised will be cut off from his people because he has broken my agreement.
- 2:52SPEAKER_00: Isaac, the promised son.
- 2:56SPEAKER_00: God said to Abraham, I will give Sarai, your wife a new name.
- 3:02SPEAKER_00: Her new name will be Sarah.
- 3:06SPEAKER_00: I will bless her, I will give her a son, and you will be the father.
- 3:11SPEAKER_00: She will be the mother of many new nations.
- 3:15SPEAKER_00: Kings of nations will come from her.
- 3:19SPEAKER_00: Abraham bowed his face to the ground to show he respected God, but he laughed and said to himself, I am a hundred years old, I cannot have a son, and Sarah is ninety years old, she cannot have a child.
- 3:36SPEAKER_00: Then Abraham said to God, I hope Ishmael will live and serve you.
- 3:43SPEAKER_00: God said No, I said that your wife Sarah will have a son.
- 3:51SPEAKER_00: You will name him Isaac.
- 3:54SPEAKER_00: I will make my agreement with him that will continue forever with all of his descendants.
- 4:01SPEAKER_00: You mentioned Ishmael, and I heard you.
- 4:06SPEAKER_00: I will bless him and he will have many children.
- 4:10SPEAKER_00: He will be the father of twelve great leaders.
- 4:14SPEAKER_00: His family will become a great nation, but I will make my agreement with Isaac, the son who Sarah will have.
- 4:25SPEAKER_00: He will be born at this same time next year.
- 4:30SPEAKER_00: After God finished talking with Abraham, God went up into heaven.
- 4:36SPEAKER_00: Then Abraham gathered together Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house.
- 4:44SPEAKER_00: He also gathered all the slaves he had bought.
- 4:48SPEAKER_00: Every man and boy in Abraham's house was gathered together, and they were all circumcised.
- 4:57SPEAKER_00: Abraham circumcised them that day just as God had told him to do.
- 5:06SPEAKER_00: Abraham was ninety nine years old when he was circumcised, and Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.
- 5:16SPEAKER_00: Abraham and his son were circumcised on the same day.
- 5:22SPEAKER_00: Also, on that day all the men in Abraham's house were circumcised, and all the slaves born in his house, and all the slaves he had bought were circumcised.