Genesis 17:11

World English Bible (2000)

You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

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  • Rom 4:11 : 11 He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
  • Acts 7:8 : 8 He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.
  • Exod 4:25 : 25 Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me."
  • Exod 12:48 : 48 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
  • Deut 10:16 : 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.
  • Josh 5:3 : 3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
  • 1 Sam 18:25-27 : 25 Saul said, "You shall tell David, 'The king desires no dowry except one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies.'" Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 When his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king's son-in-law. The days were not expired; 27 and David arose and went, he and his men, and killed of the Philistines two hundred men; and David brought their foreskins, and they gave them in full number to the king, that he might be the king's son-in-law. Saul gave him Michal his daughter as wife.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines."

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  • Gen 17:9-10
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    9God said to Abraham, "As for you, you will keep my covenant, you and your seed after you throughout their generations.

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

  • Gen 17:12-14
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    12He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

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

    14The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."

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

  • Gen 17:23-27
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    23Abraham took Ishmael his son, 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 in the same day, as God had said to him.

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

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

    26In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

    27All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

  • Deut 10:16
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    16Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

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

  • Gen 34:15-16
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    15Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised;

    16then 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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    22Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.

  • Acts 7:8
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    8He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

  • Gen 9:12
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    12God said, "This is the token 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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    22Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

  • Gen 9:17
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    17God said to Noah, "This is the token 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"It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you,

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

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.

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

  • Col 2:11
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    11in whom you were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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    18I 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;

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    18Therefore you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul; and you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

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    4Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

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    6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

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    4"As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

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    4Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

  • Ezek 44:7
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    7in that you have brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to profane it, even my house, when you offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant, [to add] to all your abominations.

  • Rom 2:25-28
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    25For circumcision indeed profits, if you are a doer of the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

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    27Won't the uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who with the letter and circumcision are a transgressor of the law?

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

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    62I will establish my covenant with you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh;

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    44but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

  • Ezek 44:9
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    9Thus says the Lord Yahweh, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners who are among the children of Israel.