“And He gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he brought forth Yitsḥ
And יהוה saw that Lĕ
And Bilhah conceived and bore Yaʽ
Then they set out from Bĕ
And it came to be, as her life was going out – for she died – that she called his name Ben-Oni. But his father called him Binyamin.
And Aḇ
Aḇ
“Because of this Mosheh has given you the circumcision – though it is not from Mosheh, but from the fathers – and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
“Men and brothers, let me speak boldly to you of the ancestor Dawiḏ
How then was it reckoned? Being in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
Brothers, as a man I say it: a covenant, even though it is man’s, yet if it is confirmed, no one sets it aside, or adds to it.
Now this I say, Torah, that came four hundred and thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously confirmed by Elohim in Messiah, so as to do away with the promise.
Now see how great this one was, to whom even the ancestor Aḇ