Genesis 17:10

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Summary

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.

Every

General references

Genesis 21:4

Exodus 12:24

Bible References

Every

In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;

Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.

And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.

Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

Undergo a circumcision of the heart, you men of Judah and people of Jerusalem: or my wrath may come out like fire, burning so that no one is able to put it out, because of the evil of your doings.

See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;

And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.

The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh:

How then is the Jew better off? or what profit is there in circumcision?

Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change.

There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

General references

And when his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham made him undergo circumcision, as God had said to him.

And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever.