“Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Genesis 17 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.