Genesis 21:4

New International Reader's Version

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

Cross References

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.

Leviticus 12:3

On the eighth day the boy must be circumcised.

Luke 1:59

On the eighth day, they came to have the child circumcised. They were going to name him Zechariah, like his father.

Luke 1:6

Both of them did what was right in the sight of God. They obeyed all the Lord’s commands and rules faithfully.

Luke 2:21

When the child was eight days old, he was circumcised. At the same time he was named Jesus. This was the name the angel had given him before his mother became pregnant.

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.

Deuteronomy 12:32

Be sure you do everything I am commanding you to do. Do not add anything to my commands. And do not take anything away from them.