Also, give me your firstborn cattle and sheep. Let the firstborn stay with its mother for seven days. Then on the eighth day, give him to me.
Leviticus 12:3 - Easy To Read Version On the eighth day, the baby boy must be circumcised. [148] Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And on the eighth day the child shall be circumcised. American Standard Version (1901) And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Common English Bible On the eighth day, the flesh of the boy’s foreskin must be circumcised. Catholic Public Domain Version And on the eighth day, the little infant shall be circumcised. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And on the eighth day the infant shall be circumcised: |
Also, give me your firstborn cattle and sheep. Let the firstborn stay with its mother for seven days. Then on the eighth day, give him to me.
Then it will be 33 days before she becomes clean [149] from her loss of blood. She must not touch anything that is holy. She must not enter the Holy Place until the time of her being made clean is finished.
It does not matter if the discharge flows freely from his body or if his body stops it from flowing.
When the baby was eight days old, they came to circumcise {\cf2\super [19]} him. They wanted to name him Zechariah because this was his father’s name.
When the baby was eight days old, he was circumcised, {\cf2\super [30]} and he was named Jesus. This name was given by the angel before the baby began to grow inside Mary.
Then some men came \{to Antioch\} from Judea. They began teaching the non-Jewish brothers: “You cannot be saved if you are not circumcised. {\cf2\super [296]} Moses taught us to do this.”
These things the law {\cf2\super [28]} says are for the people that are under the law. This stops all \{Jewish\} people from making excuses and brings the whole world (Jews and non-Jews) under God’s judgment.
This is what I mean: The agreement \{that God gave to Abraham\} was made official long before the law {\cf2\super [38]} came. The law came 430 years later. So the law could not take away the agreement and change God’s promise.
Again, I warn every man: If you allow yourselves to be circumcised, then you must follow all the law \{of Moses\}.
The Lord your God will make you and your descendants want to obey him. [198] Then you will love the Lord with all your heart. And you will live!
I was circumcised eight days after my birth. I am from the people of Israel {\cf2\super [18]} and the family group of Benjamin. I am a Hebrew (Jew), and my parents were Hebrews. The law \{of Moses\} was very important to me. That is why I became a Pharisee. {\cf2\super [19]}
In Christ you had a different kind of circumcision. {\cf2\super [9]} That circumcision was not done by the hands of any person. I mean you were made free from the power of your sinful self. That is the kind of circumcision Christ does.