Genesis 16:15-17:14
[15]Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
[16]Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.
[1]When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said to him, "I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be blameless. [2]And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will make you exceedingly numerous."
[3]Then Abram fell on his face; and God said to him, [4]"As for me, this is my covenant with you: You shall be the ancestor of a multitude of nations. [5]No longer shall your name be Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations. [6]I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. [7]I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. [8]And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding; and I will be their God."
[9]God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep my covenant, you and your offspring after you throughout their generations. [10]This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. [11]You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
[12]Throughout your generations every male among you shall be circumcised when he is eight days old, including the slave born in your house and the one bought with your money from any foreigner who is not of your offspring.
[13]Both the slave born in your house and the one bought with your money must be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.
[14]Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."
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Psalm 81
[1] Sing aloud to God our strength;
shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
[2] Raise a song, sound the tambourine,
the sweet lyre with the harp.
[3] Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our festal day.
[4] For it is a statute for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
[5] He made it a decree in Joseph,
when he went out over the land of Egypt.
I hear a voice I had not known:
[6] "I relieved your shoulder of the burden;
your hands were freed from the basket.
[7] In distress you called, and I rescued you;
I answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
[8] Hear, O my people, while I admonish you;
O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
[9] There shall be no strange god among you;
you shall not bow down to a foreign god.
[10] I am the LORD your God,
who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it.
[11]"But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.
[12] So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.
[13] O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!
[14] Then I would quickly subdue their enemies,
and turn my hand against their foes.
[15] Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him,
and their doom would last forever.
[16] I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you."
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