Genesis 17:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And God said to Abraham, On your side, you are to keep the agreement, you and your seed after you through all generations.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 25:10 : 10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.
  • Ps 103:18 : 18 If they keep his agreement, and have his laws in mind to do them.
  • Isa 56:4-5 : 4 For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me: 5 I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off.

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  • Gen 17:10-11
    2 verses
    89%

    10 And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

    11 In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

  • Gen 17:4-8
    5 verses
    88%

    4 As for me, my agreement is made with you, and you will be the father of nations without end.

    5 No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.

    6 I will make you very fertile, so that nations will come from you and kings will be your offspring.

    7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you.

    8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.

  • 19 And God said, Not so; but Sarah, your wife, will have a son, and you will give him the name Isaac, and I will make my agreement with him for ever and with his seed after him.

  • 2 And I will make an agreement between you and me, and your offspring will be greatly increased.

  • Gen 22:16-18
    3 verses
    79%

    16 Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,

    17 That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;

    18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.

  • 9 Truly, I will make my agreement with you and with your seed after you,

  • Gen 26:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    3 Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;

    4 I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and will give them all these lands, and your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth;

    5 Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.

  • Ps 105:8-9
    2 verses
    77%

    8 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

    9 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

  • 21 But my agreement will be with Isaac, to whom Sarah will give birth a year from this time.

  • 4 And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.

  • 15 For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

  • 12 And the land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give to you; and to your seed after you I will give the land.

  • 13 Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

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    15 He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

    16 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

  • 25 You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

  • 15 And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.

  • 13 He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.

  • 16 Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.

  • Gen 18:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18 Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

    19 For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

  • 18 Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:

  • 12 And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:

  • 14 Your seed will be like the dust of the earth, covering all the land to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south: you and your seed will be a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.

  • 55 As he gave his word to our fathers.

  • Gen 17:23-24
    2 verses
    73%

    23 And Abraham took Ishmael, his son, and all whose birth had taken place in his house, and all his servants whom he had made his for a price, every male of his house, and on that very day he gave them circumcision in the flesh of their private parts as God had said to him.

    24 Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.

  • 14 Saying, Be certain that I will give you my blessing, and make your numbers very great.

  • 23 Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

  • 3 And Abram said, You have given me no child, and a servant in my house will get the heritage.

  • 5 And he took him out into the open air, and said to him, Let your eyes be lifted to heaven, and see if the stars may be numbered; even so will your seed be.

  • 9 For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

  • 7 And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.