¹⁰ how then was it reckoned? he being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision;

⁵ and He bringeth him out without, and saith, `Look attentively, I pray thee, towards the heavens, and count the stars, if thou art able to count them;' and He saith to him, `Thus is thy seed.'

⁶ And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him -- righteousness.

¹⁶ and the fourth generation doth turn back hither, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.'

¹ And Sarai, Abram's wife, hath not borne to him, and she hath an handmaid, an Egyptian, and her name `is' Hagar;

² and Sarai saith unto Abram, `Lo, I pray thee, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing, go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; perhaps I am built up from her;' and Abram hearkeneth to the voice of Sarai.

³ And Sarai, Abram's wife, taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of the tenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and giveth her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife,

¹ And Abram is a son of ninety and nine years, and Jehovah appeareth unto Abram, and saith unto him, `I `am' God Almighty, walk habitually before Me, and be thou perfect;

¹⁰ this `is' My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you `is' to be circumcised;

²³ And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money -- every male among the men of Abraham's house -- and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.

²⁴ And Abraham `is' a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

²⁵ and Ishmael his son `is' a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

²⁶ in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

²⁷ and all the men of his house -- born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger -- have been circumcised with him.

¹⁸ being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;

¹⁹ the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.

⁶ for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.

¹⁵ for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;