Genesis 17:1
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
KJV
Postquam vero nonaginta et novem annorum esse cœperat, apparuit ei Dominus, dixitque ad eum : Ego Deus omnipotens : ambula coram me, et esto perfectus.
Vulgate
Ἐγένετο δὲ Ἀβρὰμ ἐτῶν ἐνενήκοντα ἐννέα, καὶ ὤφθη Κύριος τῷ Ἀβρὰμ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ θεός σου· εὐαρέστει ἐναντίον ἐμοῦ, καὶ γίνου ἄμεμπτος·
LXX
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am God Almighty; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
ASV
וַ/יְהִ֣י אַבְרָ֔ם בֶּן תִּשְׁעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֖ה וְ/תֵ֣שַׁע שָׁנִ֑ים וַ/יֵּרָ֨א יְהוָ֜ה אֶל אַבְרָ֗ם וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָי/ו֙ אֲנִי אֵ֣ל שַׁדַּ֔י הִתְהַלֵּ֥ךְ לְ/פָנַ֖/י וֶ/הְיֵ֥ה תָמִֽים
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§2571Because Abraham believed in God and walked in his presence and in covenant with him,10 The patriarch is ready to welcome a mysterious Guest into his tent. Abraham's remarkable hospitality at Mamre foreshadows the annunciation of the true Son of the promise.11 After that, once God had confided his plan, Abraham's heart is attuned to his Lord's compassion for men and he dares to …
Chapter 26.—Of God’s Attestation to Abraham, by Which He Assures Him, When Now Old, of a Son by the Barren Sarah, and Appoints Him the Father of the Nations, and Seals His Faith in the Promise by the Sacrament of Circumcision. After these things Ishmael was born of Hagar; and Abraham might think that in him 326 was fulfilled what God had promised him, saying, when he wished to …
And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram. God here renews and enlarges the covenant, changing Abram's name to Abraham. The covenant of circumcision is instituted as a sign and seal, not as the ground of righteousness, but as confirmation of the righteousness already received by faith. This sacrament, like baptism which replaced it, signifies the …
Josephus retells the Genesis narrative: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, the genealogy from Adam to Noah, the flood, the tower of Babel, and the lives of Abraham and Isaac. He follows the biblical account closely but adds rationalizing explanations and draws on extra-biblical traditions.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 2:4 — That the LORD may continue his word which he spake concerning me, saying, If thy children take heed to their way, to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, there shall n
- 1Kgs 3:6 — And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast
- 1Kgs 8:25 — Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy child
- 1Kgs 8:61 — Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.
- 1Kgs 9:4 — And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
- 2Chr 6:14 — And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest covenant, and shewest mercy unto thy servants, that walk before thee with all their hearts:
- 2Chr 7:12 — And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.
- 2Cor 6:18 — And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
- 2Kgs 20:3 — I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
- 2Sam 22:24 — I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
- Acts 23:1 — And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
- Acts 24:16 — And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
- Amos 3:3 — Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
- Dan 3:17 — If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
- Dan 4:35 — And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto h
- Deut 10:17 — For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
- Deut 18:13 — Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
- Deut 18:13 — Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
- Deut 23:14 — For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away
- Eph 3:20 — Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
- Eph 3:20 — Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
- Eph 4:1 — I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
- Exod 6:3 — And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
- Exod 6:3 — And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
- Gen 5:22 — And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Gen 5:22 — And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Gen 5:24 — And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
- Gen 6:9 — These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- Gen 6:9 — These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- Gen 12:1 — Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
- Gen 12:7 — And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
- Gen 12:7 — And the LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the LORD, who appeared unto him.
- Gen 16:16 — And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.
- Gen 18:1 — And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
- Gen 18:1 — And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
- Gen 18:14 — Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
- Gen 21:5 — And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
- Gen 24:40 — And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:
- Gen 26:2 — And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
- Gen 28:3 — And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;