17. And Abraham falleth upon his face, and laugheth, and saith in his heart, `To the son of an hundred years is one born? or doth Sarah--daughter of ninety years--bear?'
18. And Abraham saith unto God, `O that Ishmael may live before Thee;'
19. and God saith, `Sarah thy wife is certainly bearing a son to thee, and thou hast called his name Isaac, and I have established My covenant with him, for a covenant age-during, to his seed after him.
20. As to Ishmael, I have heard thee; lo, I have blessed him, and made him fruitful, and multiplied him, very exceedingly; twelve princes doth he beget, and I have made him become a great nation;
21. and My covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah doth bear to thee at this appointed time in the next year;'
22. and He finisheth speaking with him, and God goeth up from Abraham.
23. And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money--every male among the men of Abraham's house--and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.
24. And Abraham [is] a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;