---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Genesis from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 17
verse_count: 33
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Genesis, chap. 17, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Genesis 17

*Abram' new name — Circumcision instituted.*

**1** And when Abram was ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I, the Almighty God, give unto thee a commandment that thou shalt walk uprightly before me. and be perfect.
**2** And I will make my covenant between, me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.
**3** And it came to pass, that Abram fell on his face, and called upon the name of the Lord.
**4** And God talked with him, saying, My people have gone astray from my precepts, and have not kept mine ordinances, which I gave unto their fathers;
**5** And they have not observed mine anointing, and the burial, or baptism wherewith I commanded them;
**6** But have turned from the commandment, and taken unto themselves the washing of children, and the blood of sprinkling;
**7** And have said that the blood of the righteous Abel was shed for sins; and have not known wherein they are accountable before me.
**8** But as for thee, behold, I will make my covenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.
**9** And this covenant I make, that thy children may be known among all nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be called Abraham; for, a father of many nations have I made thee.
**10** And I will make thee exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come of thee, and of thy seed.
**11** And I will establish a covenant of circumcision with thee, and it shall be my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations; that thou mayest know for ever that children are not accountable before me until they are eight years old.
**12** And thou shalt observe to keep all my covenants wherein I covenanted with thy fathers; and thou shalt keep the commandments which I have given thee with mine own mouth, and I will be a God unto thee and thy seed after thee.
**13** And I will give unto thee and thy seed after thee, a land wherein thou art a stranger; all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
**14** And God said unto Abraham, Therefore thou shalt keep my covenant thou and thy seed after thee, in their generations.
**15** And this shall be my covenant which ye shall keep between me and thee and thy seed after thee; every man child among you shall be circumcised.
**16** And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
**17** And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations;
**18** He that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
**19** He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised, and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
**20** And the uncircumcised man child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people, he hath broken my covenant.
**21** And God said unto Abraham, as for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah thou shalt call her name.
**22** And I will bless her, and I will give thee a son of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be blessed, The mother of nations; kings and people shall be of her.
**23** Then Abraham fell on his face and rejoiced, and said in his heart, There shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old, and Sarah that is ninety years old shall bear.
**24** And Abraham said unto God, Oh that Ishmael might live uprightly before thee! I
**25** And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bare thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him also for an everlasting covenant with his seed after him.
**26** And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee; Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;
**27** Twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
**28** But my covenant will I establish With Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.
**29** And he left off talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.
**30** 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 self-same day, as God had said unto him.
**31** And Abraham was ninety and nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
**32** And Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
**33** In the self-same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son; and all the men of his house, which were born in his house, and bought with money of strangers, were also circumcised with him.