Abraham and the Covenant of Circumcision
Gen 17:1  And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram and said to him, I am the Almighty God! Walk before Me and be perfect. 
Gen 17:2  And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly. 
Gen 17:3  And Abram fell on his face. And God talked with him, saying, 
Gen 17:4  As for Me, behold! My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. 
Gen 17:5  Neither shall your name any more be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham. For I have made you a father of many nations. 
Gen 17:6  And I will make you exceedingly fruitful, greatly so, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you. 
Gen 17:7  And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 
Gen 17:8  And I will give the land to you in which you are a stranger, and to your seed after you, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. And I will be their God. 
Gen 17:9  And God said to Abraham, And you shall keep My covenant, you and your seed after you in their generations. 
Gen 17:10  This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your seed after you. Every male child among you shall be circumcised. 
Gen 17:11  And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin. And it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and you. 
Gen 17:12  And a son of eight days shall be circumcised among you, every male child in your generations; he that is born in the house, or bought with silver of any stranger who is not of your seed. 
Gen 17:13  He that is born in your house, and he that is bought with your silver, must be circumcised. And My covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 
Gen 17:14  And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant. 
Isaac’s Birth Promised
Gen 17:15  And God said to Abraham, As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name shall be Sarah. 
Gen 17:16  And I will bless her, and give you a son also of her. Yes, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations, kings of people shall be from her. 
Gen 17:17  And Abraham fell upon 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, who is ninety years old, bear? 
Gen 17:18  And Abraham said to God, Oh that Ishmael might live before You! 
Gen 17:19  And God said, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son indeed. And you shall call his name Isaac. And I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. 
Gen 17:20  And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall father twelve chiefs, and I will make him a great nation. 
Gen 17:21  But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you at this set time in the next year. 
Gen 17:22  And He left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham. 
Gen 17:23  And Abraham took his son Ishmael, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his silver; every male among the men of Abraham’s house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins in the same day, even as God said to him. 
Gen 17:24  And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 
Gen 17:25  And his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 
Gen 17:26  In the same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised. 
Gen 17:27  And all the men of his house, that were born in the house, and bought with silver of the stranger, were circumcised with him.

Prayer – Circumcision

Lord, my God

I want to worship You in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus
I no longer want to have confidence in the flesh
I don’t want to be stiff-necked
I pray that you will circumcise my heart
So that I can love You Jehovah my God with all my heart and with all my soul
Holding nothing back
For Your Word says: “He is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that outwardly in flesh;
But he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart; in spirit and not in letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God“.

In Jesus’ name I pray

Amen

Abram word Abraham
1Toe Abram 99 jaar oud was, het die Here weer aan hom verskyn en gesê: “Ek is God die Almagtige. Lewe in my teenwoordigheid en wees opreg. 2Ek sal my verbond met jou maak en jy sal ’n groot nasie word.” 3Toe Abram dit hoor, val hy met sy gesig op die grond. God sê toe vir hom: 4“Dit is my verbond wat Ek met jou sluit: Jy sal die voorsaat wees van baie nasies. 5Ek verander jou naam. Jy sal nie meer Abram genoem word nie, maar jy sal as Abraham bekend staan, want jy sal die voorvader wees van baie nasies. 6Ek sal jou talle nasate gee wat uit baie nasies sal bestaan. Daar sal ook konings uit jou nageslag voortkom.
7“Ek sal my verbond tussen My en jou bevestig van geslag tot geslag. Dit sal vir altyd voortduur. Ek sal altyd jou God wees en ook die God van jou nageslag. 8Hierdie hele land Kanaän waar jy nou bly, gee Ek vir jou en jou nageslag, vir altyd. En Ek sal hulle God wees.”
Die besnydenis
9“Jou deel van die ooreenkoms,” sê God vir Abraham, “is om die voorwaardes van die verbond na te kom. Dit geld vir jou en al die geslagte ná jou. 10Dít is my verbond wat jy en jou nageslag moet onderhou: Elke manlike persoon onder julle moet besny word. 11Julle moet aan die voorhuid besny word. Dit is die teken van die verbond tussen My en julle. 12Elke seun moet op die agtste dag na geboorte besny word. Dit geld nie net jou familie nie, maar ook alle slawe wat in jou huishouding gebore word en dié wat as slawe gekoop word. 13Almal moet besny word. So sal julle aan julle liggame die teken dra van my ewigdurende verbond. 14Elkeen wat nie besny is nie, sal afgesny word van God se belofte omdat hy die verbond verbreek het.”
Sara sal Isak in die wêreld bring
15Verder sê God: “Jou vrou Sarai sal nie meer so genoem word nie. Van nou af sal haar naam Sara wees. 16Ek sal haar seën en sy sal vir jou ’n seun in die wêreld bring. Ek sal haar beslis ryklik seën. Sy sal moeder word van baie nasies en uit haar nageslag sal daar konings voortkom.”
17Toe het Abraham tot op die grond neergebuig en by homself gelag. “Hoe kan ek op 100 jaar pa word?” het hy gewonder. “Daarby is Sara nou 90 jaar. Hoe kan sy geboorte gee?”
18Abraham sê toe vir God: “Ja, mag Ismael maar net voor U lewe!”
19Maar God sê vir hom: “Nee, Sara, jou vrou, sal vir jou ’n kind in die wêreld bring. Jy sal hom Isak noem en dis met hóm en sý nageslag dat Ek my blywende verbond sal bevestig. 20Wat Ismael betref, Ek sal hom ook seën soos jy gevra het. Ek sal hom seën met ’n ryke nageslag wat ’n groot nasie sal word; twaalf heersers sal uit hom voortkom. 21Maar my verbond is met Isak wat Sara ongeveer hierdie tyd volgende jaar vir jou in die wêreld sal bring.”
22Dit was die einde van die gesprek en God het van Abraham af weggegaan. 23Op dieselfde dag nog het Abraham sy seun Ismael geneem, asook elke manlike persoon in sy huishouding, en hulle aan die voorhuid besny, presies soos God beveel het. 24Abraham was 99 jaar oud toe hy besny is 25en sy seun Ismael was dertien jaar. 26Albei is op dieselfde dag besny 27saam met al die ander mans en seuns in die huishouding, dié wat in die huishouding gebore is en dié wat as slawe gekoop is.

Gebed – Besnydenis

Here, my God,

Ek wil U in die gees aanbid en juig in Christus Jesus
Ek wil nie meer vertroue in die vlees hê nie
Ek wil nie hardnekkig wees nie
Ek bid dat U my hart sal besny
Sodat ek U kan liefhê Here my God met my hele hart en met my hele siel
Ek wil niks van U weerhou nie
U Woord sê: “Want jy is nie ’n ware Jood bloot omdat jy in die openbaar as ’n Jood bekend staan of omdat jy uitwendig besny is nie. Inteendeel, die ware Jood is dié een wat dit in sy binneste is. En die ware besnydenis is nie dié een wat aan jou liggaam verrig word nie; nee, dit is die besnydenis van jou hárt wat deur die Gees van God verrig word, nie deur wetsvoorskrifte nie. Só ’n persoon ontvang lof – nie van mense nie, maar van God“.

In Jesus naam

Amen