Genesis 17:10

New International Reader's Version

Here is my covenant that you and your family after you must keep. You and every male among you must be circumcised.

Cross References

Genesis 17:11

That will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.

Genesis 17:23

On that same day Abraham circumcised his son Ishmael. He also circumcised every male who was born into his family or bought with his money. He did exactly as God had told him.

Genesis 17:27

And every male in Abraham’s household was circumcised along with him. That included those born into his family or bought from a stranger.

Genesis 21:4

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

Genesis 34:15

We’ll agree, but only on one condition. You will have to become like us. You will have to circumcise all your males.

Genesis 34:22

But they will agree to live with us as one big family only on one condition. All our males must be circumcised, just as they are.

Exodus 12:48

“Suppose an outsider living among you wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover. Then all the males in that home must be circumcised. After that, the person can take part, just like an Israelite. Only circumcised males may eat it.

Exodus 4:25

But Zipporah got a knife made out of flint. She circumcised her son with it. Then she touched Moses’ feet with the skin she had cut off. “Surely, you are a husband who has forced me to spill my son’s blood,” she said.

Jeremiah 4:4

People of Judah and you who live in Jerusalem, obey me. Do not let your hearts be stubborn. If you do, my anger will blaze out against you. It will burn like fire because of the evil things you have done. No one will be able to put it out.

John 7:22

Moses gave you circumcision, and so you circumcise a child on the Sabbath day. But circumcision did not really come from Moses. It came from Abraham.

Acts 7:8

Then God made a covenant with Abraham. God told him that circumcision would show who the members of the covenant were. Abraham became Isaac’s father. He circumcised Isaac eight days after he was born. Later, Isaac became Jacob’s father. Jacob had 12 sons. They became the founders of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Romans 2:28

A person is not a Jew if they are a Jew only on the outside. And circumcision is more than just something done to the outside of a man’s body.

Romans 3:25

God gave Christ as a sacrifice to pay for sins through the spilling of his blood. So God forgives the sins of those who have faith. God did all this to prove that he does what is right. He is a God of mercy. So he did not punish for their sins the people who lived before Jesus lived.

Romans 3:28

We firmly believe that a person is made right with God because of their faith. They are not saved by obeying the law.

Romans 3:30

There is only one God. When those who are circumcised believe in him, he makes them right with himself. Suppose those who are not circumcised believe in him. Then God also will make them right with himself.

Galatians 3:28

There is no Jew or Gentile. There is no slave or free person. There is no male or female. That’s because you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 6:12

Some people are worried about how things look on the outside. They are trying to force you to be circumcised. They do it for only one reason. They don’t want to suffer by being connected with the cross of Christ.

Ephesians 2:11

You who are not Jews by birth, here is what I want you to remember. You are called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “circumcised.” But they have only been circumcised in their bodies by human hands.

Deuteronomy 10:16

So don’t be stubborn anymore. Obey the Lord.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will keep you from being stubborn. He’ll do the same thing for your children and their children. Then you will love him with all your heart and with all your soul. And you will live.

Philippians 3:3

But we have been truly circumcised. We serve God by the power of his Spirit. We boast about what Christ Jesus has done. We don’t put our trust in who we are or what we can do.

Joshua 5:2

At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make knives out of flint. Use them to circumcise the men of Israel.”

Joshua 5:4

Here is why Joshua circumcised them. All the men who came out of Egypt had died. They died while they were wandering through the Sinai Desert. They were the men old enough to serve in the army.