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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

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you(A) so that you become an assembly of peoples.(B)

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I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name ‘the Lord.’[a](A)

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  1. 6:3 Lord (in small capitals) stands for the personal name of God, which in Hb is Yahweh. There is a long tradition of substituting ‘Lord’ for ‘Yahweh’ out of reverence.