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    "book": "genesis-woh",
    "chapter": 17
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    "title": "Genesis 17 — El Shaddai, the covenant of circumcision, and the renaming of Avram and Sarai",
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Transliteration of *El Shaddai* is defensible per established WoH practice with *El Elyon* (Gen 14:22) and *El Ro'i* (Gen 16:13); *blameless* for *tamim* aligns with NRSV/NIV consensus."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:2","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 124; Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 p. 257"],"reasoning":"*V-etnah briti* (qal cohortative of *natan* + *brit* + 1cs suffix) correctly rendered with ASV-baseline *I will make my covenant*. The *natan brit* idiom is genuinely distinct from *karat brit* (Gen 15:18) and *heqim brit* (vv 7, 19, 21); the new glossary entry correctly flags the verb-cluster as P-document precision."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:3","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine narrative bridge; *va-yipol Avram al-panav va-y-daber ito Elohim lemor* — postural-prostration before the divine speech; Elohim as subject of *daber* matches the P-document register at this point in the speech."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Av hamon goyim* — straightforward; correct ASV-baseline rendering *father of a multitude of nations* anticipating the v 5 folk-etymology."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:5","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser *AB Genesis* 1964 pp. 124-125; Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 pp. 124-125; Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 261-263"],"reasoning":"First patriarchal name-change. The in-text folk-etymology (*ki av-hamon goyim n'tatikha*) is preserved literally; the dialectal-variant alternative (Speiser, Albright BASOR 163, 1961) is documented in the apparatus. Transliteration *Avraham* over the conventional *Abraham* is consistent with WoH patriarchal-name practice."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine; *hifrekha* (hiphil of *parah*, make fruitful) + *natan l-goyim* + *m'lakhim mim'kha yetze'u*. Standard rendering."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:7","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Va-haqimoti et briti* (hiphil 1cs of *qum* + *brit*) — *heqim brit* idiom correctly handled by the expanded *meqim-brit* glossary entry; *li-vrit olam* by the expanded *brit-olam* entry. Standard rendering."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:8","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Eretz mguryekha* / *eretz Kena'an* / *achuzat olam* — standard land-promise formula; transliteration *Kena'an* consistent with chapter convention."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:9","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Routine bridge; *v-atah et briti tishmor* — qal imperfect of *shamar* (keep) with *brit* as object; standard covenant-keeping idiom."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:10","status":"approve","citations":["Sasson *JBL* 85 (1966) pp. 473-476; Bergmann *Circumcision in Antiquity* 1968; Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 pp. 125-127; Friedman *Who Wrote the Bible?* 1987 pp. 169-178"],"reasoning":"*Zot briti asher tishmru ... himol lakhem kol-zakhar* — P-document formal-prescription opening (cf. Exod 12:43, Lev 11:2). Niphal infinitive absolute used imperativally. The brit-milah glossary entry handles the institution comprehensively without lens-leakage; the translated English is standard ASV-baseline."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*U-n'maltem et b'sar orlatkhem v-haya l-ot brit* — niphal perfect consecutive; the *ot brit* (sign of a covenant) formula correctly cross-referenced to the existing *ot-ha-brit* entry."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*U-ven shmonat yamim yimol lakhem kol zakhar l-doroteikhem yelid bayit u-miknat kesef* — the eighth-day rule + the two slave-categories (*yelid bayit* / *miknat kesef*). The two-class slave taxonomy is correctly handled in the brit-milah entry's ANE comparative material; no separate entry needed."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:13","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Himol yimol* — infinitive absolute + finite verb emphatic construction; ASV's *must surely be circumcised* preserves the emphasis correctly. *V-hayeta briti b-vsarkhem li-vrit olam* — the covenant-in-flesh formula, correctly cross-referenced to the expanded *brit-olam* entry."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:14","status":"approve","citations":["Milgrom *AB Leviticus 1-16* 1991 pp. 457-460 Excursus on *karet*; Wold *The Meaning of the Biblical Penalty Kareth* 1979"],"reasoning":"First *karet* formula in the HB. *V-nikhretah ha-nefesh ha-hi me-ameha et briti hefar* — niphal of *karat* + *ha-nefesh* subject + *me-ameha* (plural) adverbial; *et briti hefar* formal violation statement. Preservation of *nefesh* untranslated matches the chapter-2 WoH convention (Gen 2:7) and avoids the Greek-philosophical body-soul dualism that ASV's *soul* imports. The four-positions parallel presentation in the glossary entry is the correct register."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:15","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 126; Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 269-270; Wenham *WBC Genesis 16-50* 1994 p. 26"],"reasoning":"Both *Sarai* and *Sarah* derive from *s-r-r* (rule, exercise authority); the change is a status-marker (yod → he morphological shift), not a semantic redefinition. The absence of in-text rationale is correctly read in the glossary entry; Sarna's consensus reading is documented."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*U-verakhti otah v-gam natati mimena lekha ben* — straightforward blessing-and-conception formula. ASV's *mother of nations* renders *v-hayetah l-goyim* (literally *she shall become nations*) with an interpolated *mother of*; this is a known ASV interpolation matched by the Gen 17:4-5 *av-hamon goyim* parallel, defensible on the literary parallelism and consistent with ASV-baseline preservation."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:17","status":"approve","citations":["Alter *The Five Books of Moses* 2004 pp. 82-84; Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 pp. 126-127, 130-131, 145-146; Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 270-272"],"reasoning":"*Va-yipol Avraham al-panav va-yitzchaq va-yomer b-libo* — qal of *tzachaq* sharing the root with the name *Yitzchaq* (v 19). The three-laughter triad (17:17, 18:12-15, 21:6) with disbelief-to-joy inversion is the mainstream literary-critical reading. The translation preserves the implicit play (*and laughed*) without forcing it parenthetically; the cross-corpus pattern is carried in apparatus."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:18","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Lu Yishma'el yichye lefanekha* — the optative particle *lu* (would that) + qal imperfect of *chayah* + *lefanekha*; ASV-baseline *oh that Yishma'el might live before you* renders the optative naturally. The Yishma'el transliteration is consistent with chapter and prior-chapter convention."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:19","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Aval Sarah ishtekha yoledet lekha ben* — the adversative *aval* (no, but / nevertheless) correctly rendered. *V-haqimoti et briti ito li-vrit olam l-zaro acharav* — the *heqim brit* idiom specifically applied to the Yitzchaq line, distinct from the blessing-only treatment of Yishma'el at v 20."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:20","status":"approve","citations":["Knauf *Ismael* 1989; Eph'al *The Ancient Arabs* 1982; Retsö *The Arabs in Antiquity* 2003"],"reasoning":"*Shneim asar nesi'im yolid u-n'tati'u l-goy gadol* — twelve-tribe Yishma'elite confederation, forward-applies to Gen 25:13-16. The *nasi* lexeme (chieftain) is the standard P/Numbers term; ASV's *princes* preserved as baseline with the *chieftain* sense documented in apparatus. The Knauf 1989 North-Arabian historical reconstruction is mainstream ANE-historical scholarship."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:21","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*V-et briti aqim et Yitzchaq* — qal imperfect 1cs of *qum* + *brit* + Yitzchaq as direct object; the *heqim brit* idiom applied specifically to Yitzchaq. *La-mo'ed ha-ze ba-shanah ha-acheret* — *at this set time in the next year* — standard set-time formula."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:22","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*Va-y-khal l-daber ito va-ya'al Elohim me-al Avraham* — the divine *ascension* formula closing the theophany; standard narrative bridge."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:23","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*B-etzem ha-yom ha-ze* P-formula correctly handled by the new glossary entry; the same-day compliance pattern (cf. Gen 7:13, Exod 12:17/41/51, Lev 23:14/21/28-30) is verifiable. The whole-household circumcision (Yishma'el + *y'lidei beyto* + *miknat kaspo*) matches the vv 12-13 institution."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:24","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*V-Avraham ben tishim va-tesha shanah b-himolo b'sar orlato* — the patriarchal age-at-circumcision (99 years), grammatically explicit. Niphal infinitive construct of *mul* with 3ms suffix."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:25","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*V-Yishma'el b'no ben shlosh esreh shanah b-himolo et b'sar orlato* — Yishma'el's age-at-circumcision (13 years); the verse's pairing with v 24 frames the joint same-day-compliance."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:26","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*B-etzem ha-yom ha-ze nimol Avraham v-Yishma'el b'no* — the double-occurrence of the *b-etzem ha-yom ha-ze* formula with v 23 emphasizes the no-delay pattern, correctly noted in the new glossary entry."},{"refId":"GEN-WOH-17:27","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"*V-khol anshe veyto y'lid bayit u-miknat kesef me-et ben-nekhar nimolu ito* — closing summary; the two slave-categories from v 12 (*y'lid bayit* / *miknat kesef*) explicitly repeated, framing the institutional compliance as comprehensive."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"el-shaddai","status":"approve","citations":["Cross *Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic* 1973 pp. 52-60; Albright *JBL* 54 (1935) pp. 173-204; Ouellette *RB* 76 (1969); Hess *Israelite Religions* 2007 pp. 142-145; Knauf 'El Shaddai' in DDD; Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 256-260"],"reasoning":"LOAD-BEARING. Independently verified: all three modern critical etymologies (i) *shadad* destroy/powerful; (ii) Akkadian *šadû* mountain (Cross 1973, Albright 1935 JBL 54); (iii) West-Semitic *Šaddai* class-epithet with Deir 'Alla *shdyn* (Ouellette 1969 RB 76, Hess 2007) — all genuinely mainstream, presented in parallel, none preempted. P-document harmonization at Exod 6:3 documented; cross-corpus reach to Gen 28:3, 35:11, 43:14, 48:3, 49:25 (six P/P-adjacent patriarchal occurrences) accurate. Cross-reference to existing *shaddai-eloah* (Job-scoped) preserved. WoH posture stays in apparatus; the English text is standard. The *claim_type=direct* designation is correct: divine name is a documentary fact and all three etymologies are mainstream scholarly positions."},{"glossary_id":"tamim-walk-before-god-covenant","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 124; Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 257-258; BDB s.v. *tamim*; HALOT s.v. *tamim*"],"reasoning":"Cross-corpus reach for *hithallekh lefanai* (Gen 5:22/24, 6:9, 17:1, 24:40, 1 Sam 2:30/35, 1 Kgs 2:4 / 3:6 / 8:23 / 8:25 / 9:4, 2 Kgs 20:3 / Isa 38:3, Ps 56:14 / 116:9) and for *tamim* (Gen 6:9, 17:1, Deut 18:13, Josh 24:14, 2 Sam 22:24 / Ps 18:24, Ps 15:2, 101:2/6, 119:1) is comprehensive and accurate. The covenantal-conduct register (not moral perfectionism) reading matches the modern critical consensus."},{"glossary_id":"natan-brit-covenant-verb-cluster","status":"approve","citations":["Friedman *Who Wrote the Bible?* 1987; Weinfeld *ABD* s.v. 'Covenant'; Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989"],"reasoning":"The four covenant-verbs (*karat brit* / *heqim brit* / *natan brit* / *zakhar brit*) correctly distinguished. *Natan brit* distribution (Gen 17:2, Num 25:12, Isa 42:6, 49:8) is accurate. The P-document refinement of the J/E *karat brit* (Gen 15) into the *natan*/*heqim* cluster (Gen 17) is a documentary-hypothesis-mainstream reading."},{"glossary_id":"avraham-name-etymology","status":"approve","citations":["Speiser *AB Genesis* 1964 pp. 124-125; Albright *BASOR* 163 (1961) pp. 47-48; Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 pp. 124-125"],"reasoning":"The folk-etymology (*av-hamon goyim* per Sarna defending Arabic *ruhām*) and the dialectal-variant reading (Speiser/Albright *Abi-raham* as Mari-attested West-Semitic personal-name type) both correctly presented as mainstream modern critical positions. The verse's in-text gloss is preserved literally; the philological dispute is carried in apparatus."},{"glossary_id":"brit-milah-circumcision-covenant","status":"approve","citations":["Sasson *JBL* 85 (1966) pp. 473-476; Bergmann *Circumcision in Antiquity* 1968; Propp *AB Exodus 1-18* 1999 (Excursus on *chatan damim*); Cohen *The Beginnings of Jewishness* 1996; Friedman *Who Wrote the Bible?* 1987 pp. 169-178; Knohl *The Sanctuary of Silence* 1995"],"reasoning":"MANDATORY ATTENTION verified. ANE comparative material is accurate (Egyptian Sixth Dynasty Saqqara reliefs; Herodotus II.36-37; Karnak depictions; Jer 9:24-25 documenting circumcision as a regional ANE practice, not exclusively Israelite). The four canonical legal elements (eighth-day timing, household-slave inclusion, *karet* sanction, covenant-in-flesh formula) correctly enumerated. Cross-corpus reach (Gen 21:4, 34, Exod 4:24-26 with Propp 1999 Excursus on *chatan damim*, Exod 12:43-49, Lev 12:3, Josh 5:2-9, 1 Sam 17:26/36, Jer 9:24-25, Ezek 44:7-9) is comprehensive. CRITICAL: Pauline reception (Gal 2-5, Rom 2:25-29 + 4:9-12) is flagged-not-preempted and explicitly located as 'downstream of the Hebrew text ... first-century Christian interpretation, not to the Gen 17 institution itself.' The explicit editorial-caution statement ('This entry must not ship a Jewish-vs-Christian supersessionist position') is present. The institution is treated in its own Hebrew-Bible register throughout."},{"glossary_id":"karet-penalty-cut-off-from-people","status":"approve","citations":["Milgrom *AB Leviticus 1-16* 1991 pp. 457-460 Excursus on *karet*; Wold *The Meaning of the Biblical Penalty Kareth* 1979; Phillips *Ancient Israel's Criminal Law* 1970; Tigay *JPS Deuteronomy* 1996; Levine *JPS Leviticus* 1989; Knohl *The Sanctuary of Silence* 1995"],"reasoning":"The four positions (i Milgrom divine-direct execution; ii Phillips 1970 excommunication; iii Tigay JPS Deut 1996 premature death; iv Levine JPS Lev 1989 extinction of line) are correctly presented in parallel. Milgrom's modern critical consensus position correctly named. Cross-corpus reach across the ~30 P/H verses verified against the standard Milgrom appendix distribution. The *nefesh* untranslated preservation rationale linked to chapter-2 convention. The *me-ameha* plural noted as formula-marker."},{"glossary_id":"sarah-name-change","status":"approve","citations":["Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 126; Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 269-270; Wenham *WBC Genesis 16-50* 1994 p. 26"],"reasoning":"Both names derive from *s-r-r* (rule, exercise authority); the change is a status-marker (yod feminine → he feminine morphological shift), not a semantic redefinition. Sarna's modern critical consensus reading correctly presented. The absence of in-text rationale and the two readings of that absence (Sarna: no semantic content to gloss; Westermann: v 16 functions as implicit gloss) both presented."},{"glossary_id":"yitzchaq-name-etymology-laughter-pattern","status":"approve","citations":["Alter *The Five Books of Moses* 2004 pp. 82-84; Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 pp. 126-127, 130-131, 145-146; Westermann *Genesis 12-36* 1985 pp. 270-272, 281-282, 333-336"],"reasoning":"The three-laughter triad (17:17 Avraham disbelief / 18:12-15 Sarah disbelief with explicit denial-and-affirmation / 21:6 Sarah joy with *tzachoq*/*ha-shomea*/*yitzchaq* sustained play) is correctly identified with the disbelief-to-joy inversion structural reading — mainstream literary-critical consensus. The verb-noun cluster across the qal imperfect, qal participle, and noun forms is grammatically explicit."},{"glossary_id":"twelve-princes-of-ishmael","status":"approve","citations":["Knauf *Ismael: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte Palästinas und Nordarabiens im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr.* 1989; Eph'al *The Ancient Arabs* 1982; Retsö *The Arabs in Antiquity* 2003"],"reasoning":"Forward-application to Gen 25:13-16 correctly framed. The Neo-Assyrian/Neo-Babylonian tribal-name overlaps (Tema=Tayma, Dumah=Adummatu, Adbeel=Idiba'ilu attested in Tiglath-Pileser III's annals, Qedar=Qidru, Nebayot=Nabaiati in Ashurbanipal's annals) are epigraphically attested. The twelve-tribe structural parallelism with the Israelite twelve-tribes is editorially deliberate and mainstream. Knauf 1989 historical reconstruction is mainstream ANE-historical scholarship."},{"glossary_id":"b-etzem-ha-yom-ha-ze-P-formula","status":"approve","citations":["Friedman *Who Wrote the Bible?* 1987; Knohl *The Sanctuary of Silence* 1995; Sarna *JPS Genesis* 1989 p. 127"],"reasoning":"P-document distribution accurate: Gen 7:13 (Noah enters ark), Exod 12:17/41/51 (Exodus-day formulae), Lev 23:14/21/28-30 (festival-day markers), Deut 32:48 (marginal/P-influenced), Josh 5:11 (first Passover in land), Ezek 2:3 / 24:2 / 40:1. Absent from J/E/D except marginal Deut 32:48 — verified. The double-occurrence at vv 23 and 26 within the same chapter is genuinely unique and correctly framed as P-document no-delay-compliance signature. The *etzem* metaphor (bone/substance) etymology is accurate."}],"appliesToExpansionReview":[{"glossary_id":"brit-olam","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Expansion to GEN-17:7, 17:13, 17:19 verified against source: all three verses contain the construct phrase *brit olam* (vv 7, 13, 19). Additive-only expansion preserves the existing rationale; v2.14.0 expansion paragraph correctly documents the wider HB distribution for forward reference. Single-concept-across-occurrences treatment is the correct architectural choice."},{"glossary_id":"meqim-brit","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Expansion to GEN-17:7, 17:19, 17:21 verified against source: v 7 (*va-haqimoti et briti*), v 19 (*va-haqimoti et briti ito*), v 21 (*v-et briti aqim et Yitzchaq*) — all three use the hiphil of *qum* with *brit*. Cross-reference to the distinct *karat-brit-cut-covenant* (Gen 15) and the new *natan-brit-covenant-verb-cluster* (Gen 17:2) preserved. Architectural choice (expand, not fragment) is correct."},{"glossary_id":"yishmael-name-etymology","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Expansion to GEN-17:18, 17:20, 17:23, 17:25, 17:26 verified against source: all five verses contain Yishma'el occurrences. The Gen 17 occurrences fall straightforwardly within the existing cross-corpus patriarchal-name-etymology scope; no separate entry warranted. The appliesTo[] canonical-reading-order reorganization is a quality-of-life improvement, additive in semantics."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[]}},
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        "n": 1,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:1",
        "text": "And when Avram was ninety years old and nine, YHWH appeared to Avram and said to him: I am El Shaddai; walk before me, and be you blameless."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:2",
        "text": "And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:3",
        "text": "And Avram fell on his face; and Elohim talked with him, saying:"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:4",
        "text": "As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:5",
        "text": "Neither shall your name any more be called Avram, but your name shall be Avraham; for the father of a multitude of nations have I made you."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:6",
        "text": "And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make of you nations, and kings shall come out of you."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:7",
        "text": "And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:8",
        "text": "And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Kena'an, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:9",
        "text": "And Elohim said to Avraham: And as for you, you shall keep my covenant, you, and your seed after you throughout their generations."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:10",
        "text": "This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you: every male among you shall be circumcised."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:11",
        "text": "And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a sign of a covenant between me and you."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:12",
        "text": "And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of your seed."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:13",
        "text": "He that is born in your house, and he that is bought with your money, must surely be circumcised; and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:14",
        "text": "And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that nefesh shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:15",
        "text": "And Elohim said to Avraham: As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:16",
        "text": "And I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her; yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:17",
        "text": "Then Avraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart: Shall a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? And shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:18",
        "text": "And Avraham said to the Elohim: Oh that Yishma'el might live before you!"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:19",
        "text": "And Elohim said: No, but Sarah your wife shall bear you a son; and you shall call his name Yitzchaq; and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:20",
        "text": "And as for Yishma'el, I have heard you: behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:21",
        "text": "But my covenant will I establish with Yitzchaq, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time in the next year."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:22",
        "text": "And he finished speaking with him, and Elohim went up from Avraham."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:23",
        "text": "And Avraham took Yishma'el his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Avraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as Elohim had spoken to him."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:24",
        "text": "And Avraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:25",
        "text": "And Yishma'el his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:26",
        "text": "In the selfsame day was Avraham circumcised, and Yishma'el his son."
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        "n": 27,
        "refId": "GEN-WOH-17:27",
        "text": "And all the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him."
      }
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