Genesis 17:4-8

Contemporary English Version

^4-5 (A) I promise that you will be the father of many nations. So now I'm changing your name from Abram to Abraham.^{[a] 6} I will give you a lot of descendants, and they will become great nations. Some of them will even be kings.

^7 (B) I will always keep the promise I have made to you and your descendants, because I am your God and their God. ^8 (C) I will give you and them the land in which you are now a foreigner. I will give the whole land of Canaan to your family forever, and I will be their God.