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Genesis 17:10

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This is my agreement with you and your descendants who come after you, the agreement you are to keep: every male among you shall be circumcised.

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You are to circumcise your foreskin, and this will be the sign of the agreement between me and you.

That day Abraham circumcised his son Ishmael as well as all those born in his household or purchased, in fact every male among the members of Abraham's household, just as God had told him.

All the males in Abraham's household, including those born in his household or purchased from foreigners, were circumcised with him.

Abraham circumcised him when Isaac was eight days old, following God's command.

We will only agree to it with this condition: all of you must be circumcised like us.

But they will only agree to this on one condition: they will only join us and become one family if every male among us is circumcised like they are.

If there's a foreigner who lives with you and wants to celebrate the Lord's Passover, all the males in their household have to be circumcised. Then he may come and celebrate it, and he shall be treated like a native of the land. But no man who is not circumcised may eat it.

However, Zipporah used a flint knife to cut off her son's foreskin. She touched his feet with it, and said to him, “You are a blood-husband to me.”

Dedicate yourselves to the Lord; be totally committed to him, people of Judah and Jerusalem. Otherwise, my anger will blaze like fire, burning so hard that no one can put it out because of the evil you've done.

“However, because Moses told you to circumcise—not that it really came from Moses, but from your forefathers before him—you perform circumcision on the Sabbath.

God also gave Abraham the agreement regarding circumcision, and so when Isaac was born, Abraham circumcised him on the eighth day. Isaac was the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of the twelve patriarchs.

It's not what's on the outside that makes you a Jew; it's not the physical sign of circumcision.

God openly presented Jesus as the gift that brings peace to those trusting in him, the one who shed his blood. God did this to demonstrate he is truly good and right, for previously he would hold back and pass over sins,

We conclude that people are made right with God through their trust in him, and not from legal observance.

There is only one God, and he makes us morally right through our trust in him, whoever we are, Jew or foreigner.

There's no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female—you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Those people who only want to make a good impression are forcing you to be circumcised just so they won't be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

So you who are “foreigners” humanly-speaking, called “uncircumcised” by those who are “circumcised” (which is only a procedure carried out by human beings), you need to remember

Dedicate yourselves to God. Don't be stubborn and hard-hearted anymore.

The Lord your God will make you and your descendants his again, and you will love him with all your mind and with all your being, so that you'll live.

For it's we who are truly circumcised, worshiping by the Spirit of God, placing our assurance in Christ Jesus. We have no confidence in human abilities—

At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the new generation of Israelites.”

This is the reason why Joshua had them all circumcised: all those who left Egypt—the men of fighting age—had died on the journey through the wilderness after the Exodus.




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