'Circumcised' in the Bible

This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised.

Throughout your generations, every male among you at eight days old is to be circumcised. This includes a slave born in your house and one purchased with money from any foreigner. The one who is not your offspring,

a slave born in your house, as well as one purchased with money, must be circumcised. My covenant will be marked in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.

If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

Then Abraham took his son Ishmael and all the slaves born in his house or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that very day, just as God had said to him.

Abraham was 99 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised,

and his son Ishmael was 13 years old when the flesh of his foreskin was circumcised.

On that same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

And all the men of his household—both slaves born in his house and those purchased with money from a foreigner—were circumcised with him.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.

But if you will not listen to us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go.”

But the men will agree to live with us and be one people only on this condition: if all our men are circumcised as they are.

All the able-bodied men listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and all the able-bodied men were circumcised.

But any slave a man has purchased may eat it, after you have circumcised him.

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate; he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.

The flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised on the eighth day.

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelite men at Gibeath-haaraloth.

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males—all the men of war—had died in the wilderness along the way after they had come out of Egypt.

Though all the people who came out were circumcised, none of the people born in the wilderness along the way were circumcised after they had come out of Egypt.

Joshua raised up their sons in their place; it was these he circumcised. They were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.

After the entire nation had been circumcised, they stayed where they were in the camp until they recovered.

“The days are coming”—the Lord’s declaration—“when I will punish all the circumcised yet uncircumcised: