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Allah again sends His Angel with His revelation to Abraham;
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the same promise is repeated to Abraham; the rite of Circumcision
is formally instituted and immediately executed. Abraham, at his
ninetieth year of age, Ishmael, and all the male servants, are
circumcised; and the "Covenant" between God and Abraham with his
only begotten son is made and sealed, as if it were with the
blood of circumcision. It is a kind of treaty concluded between
Heaven and the Promised Land in the person of Ishmael as the only
offspring of the nonagenarian Patriarch. Abraham promises
allegiance and fealty to his Creator, and God promises to be
forever the Protector and God of the posterity of Ishmael.
Later on - that is to say, when Abraham was ninety-
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the same promise is repeated to Abraham; the rite of Circumcision
is formally instituted and immediately executed. Abraham, at his
ninetieth year of age, Ishmael, and all the male servants, are
circumcised; and the "Covenant" between God and Abraham with his
only begotten son is made and sealed, as if it were with the
blood of circumcision. It is a kind of treaty concluded between
Heaven and the Promised Land in the person of Ishmael as the only
offspring of the nonagenarian Patriarch. Abraham promises
allegiance and fealty to his Creator, and God promises to be
forever the Protector and God of the posterity of Ishmael.
Later on - that is to say, when Abraham was ninety-