[“He said to him: I am God Almighty [Shadai]” (Genesis 17:1)]. The Holy One blessed be He said to Abraham: ‘It is sufficient [dai] that you and I are in the world.16Only you have come to recognize My existence. It would be sufficient for Me if you were the only person in the world. If you do not accept upon yourself to be circumcised, My world [as it has existed] to this point is sufficient [dai] for Me.17If you do not accept the commandment of circumcision, the world can come to an end; it is sufficient for Me that it has lasted this long.
It is sufficient [dai] for the foreskin [to exist] until this point.18The time has now arrived for it to be removed. And it is sufficient [dai] for [the precept of] circumcision to have been forsaken until this point.’ He [Abraham] said: ‘Even before my circumcision, people would come and confront me [in battle]. Certainly after I am circumcised they will come and confront me.’19Because they will consider my circumcision to be an affront to them, or because they will see that I have become weakened.
The Holy One blessed be He said to him: ‘Abraham, it is sufficient [dai] for you that I am your God, it is sufficient [dai] for you that I am your guardian.20You have nothing to fear from them. And not for you alone, but it is sufficient [dai] for My world that I am its God, it is sufficient [dai] for My world that I am its guardian.’ Rabbi Natan, Rabbi Aḥa, and Rabbi Berekhya in the name of Rabbi Yitzḥak: “I am God Almighty [Shadai]” – it is I who said to My world and to the heavens: ‘Enough [dai]’ [and] to the earth: ‘Enough [dai],’ as had I not said to them: ‘Enough,’ even now they would be continuously expanding.
It is taught in the name of Rabbi Elazar ben Yaakov: [God said:] ‘It is I for whom the world and all its contents are not sufficient [dai] for My Godliness.’ Akilas translated [Shadai]: Eternal and powerful.21Akilas wrote a Greek translation of the Torah.