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Covenant Circumcision

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, ‘I am God Almighty.(A) Live[a] in my presence and be blameless.(B)

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  1. 17:1 Or Walk

17 Abraham fell face down. Then he laughed(A) and said to himself, ‘Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth? ’

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19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered[a] his own body to be already dead(A) (since he was about a hundred years old)(B) and also the deadness of Sarah’s womb.(C)

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  1. 4:19 Other mss read He did not consider