Acts 7:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Then he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day, and Isaac did likewise to Jacob and Jacob to the twelve patriarchs.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ And [God] made with Abraham a covenant (an agreement to be religiously observed) of which circumcision was the seal. And under these circumstances [Abraham] became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac [did so] when he became the father of Jacob, and Jacob [when each of his sons was born], the twelve patriarchs. [Gen. 17:10-14; 21:2-4; 25:26; 29:31-35; 30:1-24; 35:16-26.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

Common English Bible

⁸ God gave him the covenant confirmed through circumcision. Accordingly, eight days after Isaac’s birth, Abraham circumcised him. Isaac did the same with Jacob, and Jacob with the twelve patriarchs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he conceived Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac conceived Jacob, and Jacob, the twelve Patriarchs.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ And he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.

Acts 7:8 Cross References

Genesis 29:31

When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

Genesis 30:5

And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

Genesis 35:16

Then they journeyed from Bethel, and when they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel was in childbirth, and she had hard labor.

Genesis 35:18

As her soul was departing, for she was dying, she named him Ben-oni, but his father called him Benjamin.

1 Chronicles 1:34

Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

Matthew 1:2

Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers,

John 7:22

Because of this Moses gave you circumcision (it is, of course, not from Moses but from the patriarchs), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

Acts 2:29

“Fellow Israelites, I may say to you confidently of our ancestor David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

Romans 4:10

How then was it reckoned to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after but before he was circumcised.

Galatians 3:15

Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person’s will has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it.

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise.

Hebrews 7:4

See how great he is! Even Abraham the patriarch gave him a tenth of the spoils.