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发信人: Stiga (云淡风清), 信区: English
标 题: Abram' s Covenant with God
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2002年12月25日18:14:54 星期三), 站内信件
发信人: dsyy (零点★戒了,戒了), 信区: English
标 题: Abram's Convert to God
发信站: 飘渺水云间 (Wed Jun 13 09:56:06 2001), 转信
Abram' s Covenant with God
Genesis
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When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said,
' I am God Almighty. Live always in my presence and be perfect , so that I
may set my covenant between myself and you and multiply your descendants. '
Abram threw himself down on his face , and God spoke with him and said , ' I
make this covenant , and I make it with you :you shall be the father of a h
ost of nations . Your name shall no longer be Abram, your name shall be Abra
ham, for I make you father of a host of nations . I will make you exceedingl
y fruitful;I will make nations out of you , and kings shall spring from you
I will fulfil my covenant between myself and you and your descendants after
you , generation after generation, an ever lasting covenant, to be your God,
yours and your descendants' after you . As an everlasting possession I will
give you and your descendants after you the land in which you now are alien
s , all the land of Canaan, and I will be God to your descendants. '
God said to Abraham , ' For your part, you must keep my covenant , you and y
our descendants after you , generation by generation. This is how you shall
keep my convenant between myself and you and your descendants after you; cir
cumcise myself and you and your descendants after you ;circumcise yourselves
, every male among you . Every male among you in every generation shall be c
ircumcised on the eighth day , both those born in your house and any foreign
er, not of your blood but bought with your money , thus shall my covenant be
marked in your flesh as an everlasting covenant . Every uncircumcised male
shall be cut off from the kin of his father . He broken my covenant . '
God said to Abraham , ' As for Sarai your wife ;you shall call her not Sarai
, but Sarah . I will bless her and give you a son by her . I will bless her
and she shall be the mother of nations ;the himself down on his face;he laug
hed and said to himself ' Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years
old ? Can Sarah bear a son when she is ninety ?
' He said to God , ' If only Ishmael might live under thy
`special care !' But God replied, ' No. Your wife Sarah shall bear you a son
, and you shall call him Isaac. With him I will fulfil my covenant , an eve
rlasting covenant with his descendants after him . I have blessed him and wi
ll make him fruitful . I will multiply his descendants; he shall be father o
f twelve princes . and I will raise a great nation from him . But my covenan
t I will fulfil with Isaac , whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next
year . ' When he had finished talking with Abraham , God ascended and left
him .
Then Abraham took Ishmael his son , everyone who had been born in his househ
old and everyone bought with money , every male in his household , and he ci
cumcise myself and you and your descendants after you ;circumcise yourselves
, every male among you . Every male among you in every generation shall be c
ircumcised on the eighth day , both those born in your house and any foreign
er, not of your blood but bought with your money , thus shall my covenant be
marked in your flesh as an everlasting covenant . Every uncircumcised male
shall be cut off from the kin of his father . He broken my covenant . '
God said to Abraham , ' As for Sarai your wife ;you shall call her not Sarai
, but Sarah . I will bless her and give you a son by her . I will bless her
and she shall be the mother of nations ;the himself down on his face;he laug
hed and said to himself ' Can a son be born to a man who is a hundred years
old ? Can Sarah bear a son when she is ninety ?
' He said to God , ' If only Ishmael might live under thy
`special care !' But God replied, ' No. Your wife Sarah shall bear you a son
, and you shall call him Isaac. With him I will fulfil my covenant , an eve
rlasting covenant with his descendants after him . I have blessed him and wi
ll make him fruitful . I will multiply his descendants; he shall be father o
f twelve princes . and I will raise a great nation from him . But my covenan
t I will fulfil with Isaac , whom Sarah will bear to you at this season next
year . ' When he had finished talking with Abraham , God ascended and left
him .
Then Abraham took Ishmael his son , everyone who had been born in his househ
old and everyone bought with money , every male in his household , and he ci
rcumcised them that very same day in the flesh of their foreskins as God had
told him to do . Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the
flesh of his foreskin. Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcise
d in the flesh of his foreskin .
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