'Circumcised' in the Bible
Here is my covenant that you are to observe, between me and you and your descendants: Every male among you is to be circumcised.
You are all to be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and this is to be the sign of the covenant between me and you.
Generation after generation, every male among you is to be circumcised on the eighth day after his birth, including the servant born in your house or the one purchased from a foreigner, who is not of your offspring.
The servant born in your house or the one purchased with money is to be circumcised. My covenant is to remain in your flesh as an eternal covenant.
Any uncircumcised male who does not have the foreskin of his flesh circumcised on the eighth day after his birth is to be eliminated from his people because he has broken my covenant."
Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the servants born in his house or purchased with his money every male among the men of his household and circumcised them that very day, just as God had spoken to him.
Both Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on that very day.
Every man born in his household as well as those who had been purchased with money from a foreigner was circumcised with him.
On the eighth day after his son Isaac had been born, Abraham circumcised him, just as God had commanded him.
They told them, "We can't do this. We can't give our sister to a man who isn't circumcised, because that would be insulting to us.
"However," they added, "only on this condition will the men consent to live with us and be united as a single people with us: every male among us will have to be circumcised just as they are.
All of the males who heard Hamor and his son Shechem, who had gone out to the city gate, were circumcised.
though any slave purchased with money may eat it after you have circumcised him.
If an alien who resides with you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may come near to observe it. He is to be like a native of the land, but no uncircumcised person is to eat it.
On the eighth day, the flesh of the baby's foreskin is to be circumcised.
At that time the LORD told Joshua, "Make for yourselves some flint knives and circumcise the Israelis who haven't been circumcised yet."
So Joshua made some flint knives and circumcised the Israelis at Gibeath-haaraloth.
Joshua circumcised them because all of the males among the people who came out of Egypt that is, all the warriors had died during their journey through the wilderness following their departure from Egypt.
Although everyone who had left Egypt had been circumcised, nevertheless all the people born during the journey after their departure from Egypt had not been circumcised.
As a result, it was their descendants, whom he raised up to take their place, that Joshua circumcised. They had remained uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised during their journey.
"Look, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh: