Quotes About Identity

“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

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

This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.

Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.

But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abrahamís household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,

and his son Ishmael was thirteen;

Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.

And all the men of Abrahamís household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.

Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

Besides, she really is my sister, the daughter of my father—though not the daughter of my mother—and she became my wife.

So when God had me journey from my fatherís house, I said to Sarah, ëThis is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”í”

But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,

and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave womanís son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

But I will also make a nation of the slave womanís son, because he is your offspring.”

And while he was dwelling in the Wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from the land of Egypt.

Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

“I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your fatherís house for us to spend the night?”

She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”