Genesis 17:11
You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.
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- Rom 4:11 : 11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.
- Acts 7:8 : 8 Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
- Exod 4:25 : 25 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, and said,“Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”
- Exod 12:48 : 48 “When a resident 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.
- Deut 10:16 : 16 Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!
- Josh 5:3 : 3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.
- 1 Sam 18:25-27 : 25 Saul replied,“Here is what you should say to David:‘There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his enemies.’”(Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.) 26 So his servants told David these things and David agreed to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired 27 when David, along with his men, went out and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.
- 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand:“Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
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- Gen 17:9-102 verses88%
9Then God said to Abraham,“As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.
10This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
- Gen 17:12-143 verses83%
12Throughout 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.
13They 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.
14Any 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.”
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3On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.
- Gen 17:23-275 verses78%
23Abraham 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.
24Now Abraham was 99 years old when he was circumcised;
25his son Ishmael was thirteen years old when he was circumcised.
26Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.
27All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
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16Therefore, cleanse your heart and stop being so stubborn!
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7I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.
- Gen 34:15-162 verses74%
15We will give you our consent on this one condition: You must become like us by circumcising all your males.
16Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.
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22Only 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.
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8Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
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12And God said,“This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:
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22However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision(not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.
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17So God said to Noah,“This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”
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11When the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,
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2Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”
- 1 Cor 7:18-192 verses72%
18Was anyone called after he had been circumcised? He should not try to undo his circumcision. Was anyone called who is uncircumcised? He should not get circumcised.
19Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Instead, keeping God’s commandments is what counts.
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11In him you also were circumcised– not, however, with a circumcision performed by human hands, but by the removal of the fleshly body, that is, through the circumcision done by Christ.
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18I will punish those people who have violated their covenant with me. I will make them like the calf they cut in two and passed between its pieces. I will do so because they did not keep the terms of the covenant they made in my presence.
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18Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.
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4When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.
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25The LORD says,“Watch out! The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.
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6The LORD your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.
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4“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.
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4Commit yourselves to the LORD; Dedicate your hearts to me, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Otherwise, my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against you that no one will be able to extinguish. That will happen because of the evil you have done.”
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7When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate it– even my house– when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.
- Rom 2:25-284 verses70%
25For circumcision has its value if you practice the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.
26Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
27The physically uncircumcised man, by keeping the law, will judge you to be the transgressor of the law, even though you have the letter and circumcision!
28For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something that is outward in the flesh,
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62I will establish my covenant with you, and then you will know that I am the LORD.
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11New Life Corporately Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh– who are called“uncircumcision” by the so-called“circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands–
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11And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised, so that he would become the father of all those who believe but have never been circumcised, that they too could have righteousness credited to them.
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44But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.
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9This is what the Sovereign LORD says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary.