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Genesis 17:1 (Listen)

Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old the Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty;1 walk before me, and be nblameless,

Footnotes

[1] 17:1 Hebrew El Shaddai

Genesis 17:17 (Listen)

17 Then Abraham efell on his face fand laughed and said to himself, “Shall a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

Romans 4:19 (Listen)

19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was ras good as dead (ssince he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered tthe barrenness1 of Sarah's womb.

Footnotes

[1] 4:19 Greek deadness