5. Your name will no longer be Abram, but Abraham, because I am making you the ancestor of many nations.
6. I will give you many descendants, and some of them will be kings. You will have so many descendants that they will become nations.
7. “I will keep my promise to you and to your descendants in future generations as an everlasting covenant. I will be your God and the God of your descendants.
8. I will give to you and to your descendants this land in which you are now a foreigner. The whole land of Canaan will belong to your descendants for ever, and I will be their God.”
9. God said to Abraham, “You also must agree to keep the covenant with me, both you and your descendants in future generations.
10. You and your descendants must all agree to circumcise every male among you.
11-12. From now on you must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old, including slaves born in your homes and slaves bought from foreigners. This will show that there is a covenant between you and me.
13. Each one must be circumcised, and this will be a physical sign to show that my covenant with you is everlasting.
14. Any male who has not been circumcised will no longer be considered one of my people, because he has not kept the covenant with me.”
15. God said to Abraham, “You must no longer call your wife Sarai; from now on her name is Sarah.
16. I will bless her, and I will give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will become the mother of nations, and there will be kings among her descendants.”