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And in the fifth year of the fourth week of this jubilee, in the third month, in the middle of the month, Avram celebrated the feast of the first-fruits of the grain harvest.
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And he offered new offerings on the altar, the first-fruits of the produce, to Yahuah, an heifer and a goat and a sheep on the altar as a burnt sacrifice to Yahuah; their fruit-offerings and their drink-offerings he offered upon the altar with frankincense.
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And Yahuah appeared to Avram, and said to him: "I am Elohim Almighty; approve yourself before Me and be you perfect.
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And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and I will multiply you exceedingly."
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And Avram fell on his face, and Elohim talked with him, and said:
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"Behold My ordinance is with you, And you will be the father of many nations.
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Neither will your name any more be called Avram, But your name from from then onward, even for ever, shall be Avraham. For the father of many nations have I made you.
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And I shall make you very great, And I shall make you into nations, And kings will come forth from you.
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And I shall establish My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you, throughout their generations, for an eternal covenant, so that I may be a Elohim to you, and to your seed after you.
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(And I shall give to you and to your seed after you) the land where you hast been a sojourner, the land of Kena’an, that you mayst possess it for ever, and I shall be their Elohim."
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And Yahuah said to Avraham: "And as for you, do you keep My Covenant, you and your seed after you,
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and circumcise you every male among you, and circumcise your foreskins, and it will be a token of an eternal covenant between Me and you.
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And the child on the eighth day you will circumcise, every male throughout your generations, him that is born in the house, or whom you have bought with money from any stranger, whom you have acquired
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who is not of your seed. He that is born in your house will surely be circumcised, and those whom you hast bought with money will be circumcised, and My covenant will be in your flesh for an eternal ordinance.
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And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul will be cut off from his people, for he has broken My covenant."
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And Elohim said to Avraham: "As for Sarai your wife, her name will no more be called Sarai, but Sarah will be her name.
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And I shall bless her, and give you a son by her, and I shall bless him, and he will become a nation, and kings of nations will proceed from him."
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And Avraham fell on his face, and rejoiced, and said in his heart: "Shall a son be born to him that is a hundred years old, and shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bring forth?"
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And Avraham said to Elohim: "O that Yishma’el might live before you!"
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And Elohim said: "Yea, and Sarah also will bear you a son, and you will call his name Yitschaq, and I shall establish My covenant with him, an everlasting covenant, and for his seed after him.
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And as for Yishma’el also have I heard you, and look I shall bless him, and make him great, and multiply him exceedingly, and he will beget twelve princes, and I shall make him a great nation.
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But My covenant shall I establish with Yitschaq, whom Sarah will bear to you, in these days, in the next year."
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And He left off speaking with him, and Elohim went up from Avraham.
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And Avraham did according as Elohim had said to him, and he took Yishma’el his son, and all that were born in his house, and whom he had bought with his money, every male in his house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin.
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And on the selfsame day was Avraham circumcised, and all the men of his house, (and those born in the house), and all those, whom he had bought with money from the children of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
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This law is for all the generations for ever,
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and there is no circumcision of the days, and no omission of one day out of the eight days; for it is an eternal ordinance, ordained and written on the heavenly tables.
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And every one that is born, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised on the eighth day, belongs not to the children of the covenant which Yahuah made with Avraham, but to the children of destruction;
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nor is there, moreover, any sign on him that he is Yahuah's, but (he is destined) to be destroyed and slain from the earth, and to be rooted out of the earth, for he has broken the covenant of Yahuah our Elohim.
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For all the mal’akhiym of the Presence and all the mal’akhiym of sanctification have been so created from the day of their creation, and before the mal’akhiym of the Presence and the mal’akhiym of sanctification He has sanctified Yis’rael, that they should be with Him and with His set-apart mal’akhiym.
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And do you command the children of Yis’rael and let them observe the sign of this covenant for their generations as an eternal ordinance, and they will not be rooted out of the land.
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For the command is ordained for a covenant, that they should observe it for ever among all the children of Yis’rael.
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For Yishma’el and his sons and his brothers and Esav, Yahuah did not cause to approach Him, and he chose them not...
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because they are the children of Avraham, because He knew them, but He chose Yis’rael to be His people. And He sanctified it, and gathered it from among all the children of men;
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for there are many nations and many peoples, and all are His, and over all has He placed spirits in authority to lead them astray from Him.
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But over Yis’rael He did not appoint any mal’akh or spirit, for He alone is their ruler, and He will preserve them and require them at the hand of His mal’akhiym and His spirits, and at the hand of all His powers in order
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that He may preserve them and bless them, and that they may be His and He may be theirs from from then onward for ever.
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And now I announce to you that the children of Yis’rael will not keep true to this ordinance, and they will not circumcise their sons according to all this law;
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for in the flesh of their circumcision they will omit this circumcision of their sons, and all of them, sons of Beliyar, will leave their sons uncircumcised as they were born.
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And there will be great wrath from Yahuah against the children of Yis’rael, because they have forsaken His covenant and turned aside from His word,
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and provoked and blasphemed, inasmuch as they do not observe the ordinance of this law; for they have treated their members like the nations, so that they may be removed and rooted out of the land.
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And there will no more be pardon or forgiveness to them [so that there should be forgiveness and pardon] for all the sin of this eternal error.