{
  "1": "{Years} later, when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Yahweh came to him and told him, “I {am} God {who is} all-powerful. Live in a way that pleases me so that you will be blameless. ",
  "2": "I will establish my agreement with you, and I will increase {the number of} your descendants so that they are very numerous.”\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "3": "{When} Abram {heard that, he} bowed with his face to the ground {before God} {to show respect}, and God continued speaking to him, ",
  "4": "“Listen, this is what I will do to fulfill my agreement with you: I will make you the ancestor of many people groups. ",
  "5": "So your name will no longer be Abram. Rather, {from now on} it will be Abraham, because you will be the ancestor of many people groups. ",
  "6": "Yes, I will give you many, many descendants, so that you will become {the ancestor of many} people groups. In fact, some of your descendants will be kings.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "7": "I will establish my agreement with you and {all} your descendants {who live} after you for {all} generations to come. It will be an agreement that never ends, that I will be your God and {the God} of {all} your descendants. ",
  "8": "I will also give to you and your descendants this land where you have been living as a foreigner, {yes,} the entire region of Canaan. They will own it forever, and I will be their God.”\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "9": "Then God continued, “Now as for your part {in this agreement}, you must obey me. {That applies to} you as well as {all} your descendants for {all} generations to come. ",
  "10": "This is {what I require in} my agreement with you and your descendants, which you {all} must obey: You must circumcise all males {who live} among you. ",
  "11": "Yes, you must circumcise the foreskins of {all the males among} you, and that {custom} will remind {you all} that {I made} this agreement with you.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "12": "For all {future} generations you must circumcise {every} baby boy who is eight days old, {as well as} all {other} males among your people. {That includes} males from your own family as well as those who {are} not your descendants but {are servants whom you} bought from foreigners. ",
  "13": "{Yes,} you must definitely circumcise {all of} them, {regardless of whether} they are sons from your own family or servants whom you have bought. That is how you must mark my agreement on your bodies to show that it is an agreement that never ends. ",
  "14": "In fact, if any man refuses to let you circumcise him, you must {send him away and} not allow him to associate with my people, {because} he has disobeyed {what I require in} my agreement.”\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "15": "God {also} told Abraham, “{As for} your wife Sarai, do not call her Sarai {anymore}. Rather, {from now on} her name will be Sarah. ",
  "16": "I will bless her, and I will definitely enable her to bear a son for you. In fact, I will bless her so that she will {have many descendants that will} become {many} people groups, and some of her descendants will {even} be kings {who rule} over people groups.”\n\n\\ts\\*\n\\p",
  "17": "{When} Abraham {heard that, he} bowed with his face to the ground {before God} {to respect him}, but he laughed {silently} and thought to himself, “How can a hundred-year-old man {like me} father a child? And how can Sarah who is ninety years old {still} have a baby?” ",
  "18": "So Abraham said to God, “Please let Ishmael be the one whom you bless {as my heir}!”\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "19": "God replied, “Yes, but {it is} your wife Sarah {who} will give birth to a son for you. You must name him Isaac. He {is the one} I will establish my agreement with, as a permanent agreement {that I will also keep} with {all} his descendants {who live} after him.\n\n\\p",
  "20": "“I also heard what you asked me to do for Ishmael. {So} this is what I will do: I will {also} bless him, and I will give him many children and greatly increase {the number of} his descendants. {In fact,} he will be the father of twelve {sons who become} {powerful} leaders, and I will make him {the ancestor of} a large people group. ",
  "21": "But I will establish my agreement with {your son} Isaac. Sarah will give birth to him at this time next year.”\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "22": "After he had finished talking to Abraham, God left him and ascended {to heaven}.\n\n\\p",
  "23": "Then Abraham gathered his son Ishmael and all the {other} males who were born in his household and all {his male servants} whom he had bought, {yes,} every male in his household. Then on that same day he circumcised them, exactly as God had commanded him {to do}.\n\n\\ts\\* ",
  "24": "Abraham {was} 99 years old when he was circumcised, ",
  "25": "and his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when {Abraham} circumcised him. ",
  "26": "{So it was,} on that same day {both} Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised. ",
  "27": "And all the {other} males in Abraham’s household, {including} those {who had been} born in his household as well as those {whom he had} bought {as servants} from foreigners, were also circumcised.\n\n\\ts\\*",
  "front": "\\s1 More Details about God’s Agreement with Abram, including Circumcision\n\\sr 17:1-27\n\\p"
}
