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e circumcised. 11 And ye shall citcumcise tlie flesh of your foreskin;and it shall be a token of the covenant Lntw~xt me and you. 12 And hethat is eight days old shall be circumcised among yo11, every nlan childin your generations, he that is born in the houre, or Imuglt with moneyof any stranger, which is not of thy seed. 13 He that is born in thyhouse. and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised:and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14 'And the uncircumciscd man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised.that soul shall be cut off from his people: he hath broken mycovenant. 15 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thoushalt not call her name Sarai but Sarali shall her name be. 16 And Iwill blas her, and give the a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, andthe shall be a mothrr of nations; kings of people shall be of I~er. 17 ThenAbraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said In his heart, Shall achili1 be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah. thatis ninety years old, bear ? 18 And Abrahzm said unto God, 0 !hat Ishmaelmight live before thee 1 19 And God said Sarah thy wife shallbear thee a son indeed. and thou shalt call hishame Isaac: and I willestablish my covenant Aith him for an everlasting covenant, and with ;.his aced after him. P And as for Ishmael. I have heard thee: Behold.I have bleawd him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply h ~m exceedingly;twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great ,nation. 21 But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah .shall bear unto thee at thisset time in the next year. 22 And he left off :talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. 23 And Abrahamtook lvhmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that :were bought with hjs 'money. every nlale among the men of Abraham'shouse; and circu~nc~sed the flesh of their foreskin In the self same dayas Cod had said unto him. 24 And Abraham urns ninety years old andnine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ish- ,mael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the fleshif his foreskin. 26 In the selfsame da was Abraham circumcised, andIshn~ael hisson. And a11 the men orhis house, born in the house, and :bought with money of the stranger, were circunicised with him.After the nation of Israel, born of the Law Covenant, !had entered into their inheritance, God gave them judges,and later, kings, as His representatives in the earthlykingdom. But it soon became apparent to the honestheartedamong the people, that the Law would makenothing perfect, and that it was not possible that theblood of bulls and of goats could take away sins. Hagardid not represent the covenant, nor Ishmael the Seed,which could bring blessing. When this became evident,God then proclai~ned, for the first time, His intention to22