When Abram was nynetye yere olde ∧ ix. the LORde apeared to hym sayenge: I am the almyghtie God: walke before me &abar;d be vncorrupte. And I wyll make my bonde betwene the and me / and wyll multiplye the excedyngly. And Abr&abar; fell on his face. And God talked moreover with hym saynge: I am / beholde my testam&ebar;t is with the / that thou shalt be a father of many nati&obar;s. Therfore / shalt thou no more be called Abram / but thy name shalbe Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made the / and I will multiplye the excedyngly / and wyll make nations of the: yee and kynges shall sprynge out of the.

Moreover I will make my bonde betwene me and the / and thy seed after the / in their tymes

to be an everlastynge testament / So that I wyll be God vnto the and to thy seed after the. And I will geue vnto the &abar;d to thy seed after the / the lande where in thou arte a straunger: Euen all the lande of Canaan / for an everlastynge possession / and wil be their God.

And God sayde vnto Abrah&abar;: Se thou kepe my testamente / both thou ∧ thy seed after the in their tymes: This is my testamente which ye shall kepe betwene me and you and thy seed after the / that ye circ&ubar;cyse all youre men childern ye shall circumcyse the foreskynne of youre flesh / &abar;d it shal be a token of the bond betwixte me and you. And euery manchilde when it is viij. dayes olde / shal be circ&ubar;cysed amonge you in youre generations / and all servauntes also borne at home or boughte with money though they be straungers and not of thy seed. The seruaunte borne in thy housse / &abar;d he also that is bought with money / must needes be circumcysed / that my testament may be in youre flesh / for an everlastinge bonde. Yf there be any vncircuncysed manchilde / that hath not the forskynne of his flesh cutt of / his soule shall perish from his people: because he hath brok&ebar; my testam&ebar;t

And God sayde vnto Abraham. Sarai thy wyfe shall nomore be called Sarai: but Sara shall hir name be. For I will blesse her ∧ geue the a sonne of her and will blesse her: so that people / ye and kynges of people shall springe of her. And Abraham fell vpon his face &abar;d

laughte / and sayd in his harte: shall a childe be borne vnto hym that is an hundred yere olde / &abar;d shall Sara that is nynetie yere olde / bere? And Abrah&abar; sayde vnto God. O that Ismaell myghte lyve in thy syghte.

Th&ebar; sayde God: na / Sara thy wife shall bere the a sonne / &abar;d thou shalt call his name Isaac. And I will make my bonde with him / that it shall be an everlastynge bonde vnto his seed after him. And as concernynge Ismaell also / I haue herde thy request: loo / I will blesse him and encrease him / and multiplye him excedyingly. Twelve prynces shall be begete / and I will make a great nation of him. But my bonde will I make with Isaac / which Sara shall bere vnto the: even this tyme twelue moneth.

And God left of talkynge with him / and departed vp from Abraham. And Abraham toke Ismaell his sonne ∧ all the servauntes borne in his housse and all that was bought with money as many as were menchildren amonge the m&ebar; of Abrah&abar;s housse / and circumcysed the foreskynne of their flesh / even the selfe same daye / as God had sayde vnto him. Abraham was nynetie yere olde and .ix. when he cutt of the foreskynne of his flesh. And Ismaell his sonne was .xiij. yere olde / when the foreskynne of hys flesh was circumcysed. The selfe same daye was Abrah&abar; circ&ubar;cised ∧ Ismael his sonne. And all the men in his housse / whether they were borne in his housse or bought wyth

money (though they were straungers) were circumcysed with him.

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