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Genesis 17:24

The Passion Translation

Abraham was already ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,

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So Abram obeyed Yahweh and left; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran after his father died.

When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh appeared to him again and said, “I am the God who is more than enough. Live your life in my presence and be blameless.

You must undergo cutting off the flesh of your foreskin as a special sign of the covenant between me and you.

Then Abraham laughed so hard he fell to the ground, saying to himself, “How in the world can a hundred-year-old man become a father? How can my wife Sarah get pregnant at ninety?”

Now, both Abraham and Sarah were already very old, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing.

Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born.

It was later that he received the external sign of circumcision as a seal to confirm that God had already transferred his righteousness to him by faith, while he was still uncircumcised. So now this qualifies him to become the father of all who believe among the non-Jewish people. And like their “father of faith,” Abraham, God also transfers his righteousness to them by faith.




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