John 7:22

New American Bible - revised edition

because of it. Moses gave you circumcision—not that it came from Moses but rather from the patriarchs—and you circumcise a man on the sabbath.

Cross References

Leviticus 12:3

On the eighth day, the flesh of the boy’s foreskin shall be circumcised,

Galatians 3:17

This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the promise.

Genesis 21:4

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded.

Acts 7:8

Then he gave him the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day, as Isaac did Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.