Genesis 17:24
Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
In Context
25Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Cross References
Genesis 12:4So Abram went, as Yahweh had told him to do, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
Genesis 17:17Then Abraham bowed low with his face to the ground, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? How can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a son?”
Genesis 21:5Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Romans 4:19Without becoming weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about a hundred years old)—and he considered the deadness of Sarah's womb.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 17:24-27
Circumcision of Abraham, &c. ( b. c. 1898.) 23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. 24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the selfsame day… Read the whole commentary →