Covenant Circumcision

17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty.^(A) Live^[a] in my presence and be blameless.^(B)

¹⁷ Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed^(A) and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a hundred-year-old man? Can Sarah, a ninety-year-old woman, give birth?”

¹⁹ He did not weaken in faith when he considered^[a] his own body to be already dead^(A) (since he was about a hundred years old)^(B) and also the deadness of Sarah’s womb.^(C)