'Circumcised' in the Bible
This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.
They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.
Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people -- he has failed to carry out my requirement."
Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.
Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.
All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.
They said to them, "We cannot give our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace to us.
But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart."
Only on this one condition will these men consent to live with us and become one people: They demand that every male among us be circumcised just as they are circumcised.
All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.
But everyone's servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.
"When a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land -- but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.
Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.
He replaced them with their sons, whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.
When all the men had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.
The Lord says, "Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.
That is, I will punish the Egyptians, the Judeans, the Edomites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and all the desert people who cut their hair short at the temples. I will do so because none of the people of those nations are really circumcised in the Lord's sight. Moreover, none of the people of Israel are circumcised when it comes to their hearts."