Genesis 17:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

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  • Rom 4:11 : 11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be credited to them also;
  • Acts 7:8 : 8 And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.
  • Exod 4:25 : 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband are you to me.
  • Exod 12:48 : 48 And when a stranger dwells with you, and wants to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is native to the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
  • Deut 10:16 : 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.
  • Josh 5:3 : 3 And Joshua made sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
  • 1 Sam 18:25-27 : 25 And Saul said, Thus shall you say to David, The king desires no dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law: and before the days had expired, 27 Therefore David arose and went, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the Philistines; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full count to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. And Saul gave him Michal his daughter as a wife.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

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  • Gen 17:9-10
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    9 And God said to Abraham, You shall keep my covenant therefore, you and your descendants after you in their generations.

    10 This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised.

  • Gen 17:12-14
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    12 And he who is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male child in your generations, he who is born in the house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not your descendant.

    13 He who is born in your house and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised, and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.

    14 And the uncircumcised male child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.

  • Lev 12:3
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    3 And on the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

  • Gen 17:23-27
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    23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house and all who were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin that very same day, as God had said to him.

    24 And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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

    26 On that very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

    27 And all the men of his house, born in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

  • Deut 10:16
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    16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.

  • Gen 17:7
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    7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your descendants after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

  • Gen 34:15-16
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    15 But in this will we consent unto you: If you will become as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,

    16 Then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

  • Gen 34:22
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    22 Only in this will the men consent to dwell with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised.

  • Acts 7:8
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    8 And He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob; and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

  • Gen 9:12
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    12 And God said, This is the sign of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

  • John 7:22
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    22 Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

  • Gen 9:17
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    17 And God said to Noah, This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.

  • Exod 13:11
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    11 And it shall be when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it to you,

  • Gen 17:2
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    2 And I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18 Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.

    19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters.

  • Col 2:11
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    11 In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

  • Jer 34:18
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    18 And I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:

  • Deut 11:18
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    18 Therefore, you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, so they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

  • Gen 21:4
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    4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

  • Jer 9:25
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    25 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will punish all those who are circumcised with the uncircumcised;

  • Deut 30:6
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    6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

  • Gen 17:4
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    4 As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations.

  • Jer 4:4
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    4 Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your deeds.

  • Ezek 44:7
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    7 When you brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to defile it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they broke my covenant because of all your abominations.

  • Rom 2:25-28
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    25 For circumcision truly profits if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision.

    26 Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

    27 And shall not the uncircumcised which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision transgress the law?

    28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh:

  • Ezek 16:62
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    62 And I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am the LORD:

  • Eph 2:11
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    11 Therefore, remember that you being in times past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;

  • Rom 4:11
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    11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be credited to them also;

  • Exod 12:44
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    44 But every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

  • Ezek 44:9
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    9 Thus says the Lord GOD; No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter my sanctuary, any stranger who is among the children of Israel.