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The Book of Genesis, Chapter 17, Verse 16

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And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah [shall] her name [be].
King James Version
And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother] of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
American Standard Version
And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be [a mother of] nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.
New English Translation
I will bless her and will give you a son through her. I will bless her and she will become a mother of nations. Kings of countries will come from her!”
World English Bible
I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her."
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Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall [a child] be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
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And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
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And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, [and] with his seed after him.
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And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: 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.
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But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
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And he left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
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And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
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And Abraham [was] ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.