17When Aʹbram got to be ninety-nine years old, then Jehovah appeared to Aʹbram and said to him:+ “I am God Almighty.*+ Walk before me and prove yourself faultless.+
40 Then he said to me, ‘Jehovah, before whom I have walked,+ will send his angel+ with you and will certainly give success to your way;+ and you must take a wife for my son from my family and from the house of my father.+