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Then God said to Abraham, "As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.
Then the LORD appeared to him by the terebinth trees of Mamre, as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.
"And I will bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh your hearts. After that you may pass by, inasmuch as you have come to your servant." They said, "Do as you have said."
And Abraham said to God, "Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!"
That very same day Abraham was circumcised, and his son Ishmael;
Then He finished talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
So Abraham took Ishmael his son, all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very same day, as God had said to him.
And the LORD said, "Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
"And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall beget twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
"Please let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old, shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
"But My covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time next year."
Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age; and Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
And the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave,
and said, "My Lord, if I have now found favor in Your sight, do not pass on by Your servant.
Then they said to him, "Where is Sarah your wife?" So he said, "Here, in the tent."
"Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son."