Genesis 21:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • 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.
  • Gen 17:10-12 : 10 This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised. 11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you. 12 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.
  • 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.
  • Lev 12:3 : 3 On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.
  • Deut 12:32 : 32 Idolatry and False Prophets(13:1) You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!
  • Luke 1:6 : 6 They were both righteous in the sight of God, following all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blamelessly.
  • Luke 1:59 : 59 On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they wanted to name him Zechariah after his father.
  • Luke 2:21 : 21 At the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.
  • John 7:22-23 : 22 However, 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. 23 But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

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  • Gen 21:5
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    5(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)

  • Gen 21:1-3
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    81%

    1The Birth of Isaac The LORD visited Sarah just as he had said he would and did for Sarah what he had promised.

    2So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

    3Abraham named his son– whom Sarah bore to him– Isaac.

  • Gen 17:23-26
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    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.

  • Acts 7:8
    76%

    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.

  • Lev 12:3
    75%

    3On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.

  • Gen 21:8
    74%

    8The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

  • Gen 22:8-10
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    73%

    8“God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

    9When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

    10Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.

  • Gen 17:9-12
    4 verses
    73%

    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.

    11You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.

    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.

  • Gen 17:19
    73%

    19God said,“No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

  • Gen 17:21
    72%

    21But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

  • Gen 25:19
    72%

    19Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.

  • Gen 22:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1The Sacrifice of Isaac Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him,“Abraham!”“Here I am!” Abraham replied.

    2God said,“Take your son– your only son, whom you love, Isaac– and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”

  • Heb 11:17-18
    2 verses
    71%

    17By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He had received the promises, yet he was ready to offer up his only son.

    18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

  • 1 Chr 1:28
    71%

    28The sons of Abraham:Isaac and Ishmael.

  • Gen 21:12
    70%

    12But God said to Abraham,“Do not be upset about the boy or your slave wife. Do all that Sarah is telling you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted.

  • Gen 22:6
    70%

    6Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together.

  • Rom 4:12
    70%

    12And he is also the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham possessed when he was still uncircumcised.

  • Gen 17:14
    70%

    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.”