Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Not only the jews, but the arabs, who are the descendants of ishmael, retain the rite of circumcision to this day; and the latter perform it, as the other mahometanus also do, at the age of thirteen

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Bible References

Not only the jews, but the arabs, who are the descendants of ishmael, retain the rite of circumcision to this day; and the latter perform it, as the other mahometanus also do, at the age of thirteen

Genesis 17:25
And Ishmael his son, the son of thirteen years in his circumcising the flesh of his uncircumcision.

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Acts 10:47
Much less can any hinder water, for these not to be immersed, who received the Holy Spirit as also we?