You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and you. ,
Genesis 17:10 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised This is my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you, which you are to keep: every one of your males must be circumcised. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your posterity after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised. American Standard Version (1901) This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised. Common English Bible This is my covenant that you and your descendants must keep: Circumcise every male. Catholic Public Domain Version This is my covenant, which you shall observe, between me and you, and your offspring after you: All the males among you shall be circumcised. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version This is my covenant which you shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised. |
You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskin to serve as a sign of the covenant between me and you. ,
So Abraham took his son Ishmael and those born in his household or purchased #– #every male among the members of Abraham’s household #– #and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.
And all the men of his household #– #whether born in his household or purchased from a foreigner #– #were circumcised with him.
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.
But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are.
If a foreigner resides among you and wants to observe the Lord’s Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate; he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.
So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son’s foreskin, threw it at Moses’s feet, and said, ‘You are a bridegroom of blood to me! ’
Circumcise yourselves to the Lord; remove the foreskin of your hearts, men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. Otherwise, my wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of your evil deeds.
‘This is why Moses has given you circumcision #– #not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers #– #and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
And so he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision. After this, he fathered Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, and true circumcision is not something visible in the flesh.
God presented him as the mercy seat , by his blood, through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his restraint God passed over the sins previously committed.
For we conclude that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.
since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones who would compel you to be circumcised #– #but only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Christ.
So, then, remember that at one time you were Gentiles in the flesh #– #called ‘the uncircumcised’ by those called ‘the circumcised’, which is done in the flesh by human hands.
Therefore, circumcise your hearts and don’t be stiff-necked any longer.
The Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love him with all your heart and all your soul so that you will live.
For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, boast in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh #– #
At that time the Lord said to Joshua, ‘Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelite men again.’
This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males #– #all the men of war #– #had died in the wilderness along the way after they had come out of Egypt.