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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 17: 15 And God said unto Abraham: 'As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
Genesis 17: 16 And I will bless her, and moreover I will give thee a son of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples shall be of her.'
Genesis 17: 17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and 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?'
Genesis 17: 18 And Abraham said unto God: 'Oh that Ishmael might live before Thee!'
Genesis 17: 19 And God said: ''Nay, but Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.
Genesis 17: 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee; behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Genesis 17: 21 But My covenant will I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.'
Genesis 17: 22 And He left off talking with him, and God went up from Abraham.
Genesis 17: 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 
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