Abraham Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Sarah=== Thirteen years later, when Abram was 99 years of age, God declared Abram's new name: "Abraham" β "a father of many nations".<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|17:5|niv}}</ref> Abraham then received the instructions for the [[covenant of the pieces]], of which [[Religious male circumcision|circumcision]] was to be the sign.<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|17:10β14|niv}}</ref> God declared Sarai's new name: "[[Sarah]]", blessed her, and told Abraham, "I will give thee a son also of her".<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|17:15β16|niv}}</ref> Abraham laughed, and "said in his heart, 'Shall a ''child'' be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear [a child]?'"<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|17:17|niv}}</ref> Immediately after Abraham's encounter with God, he had his entire household of men, including himself (age 99) and Ishmael (age 13), circumcised.<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|17:22β27|niv}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page