Genesis 17:11

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.

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  • Rom 4:11 : 11 and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,
  • Acts 7:8 : 8 `And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac `begat' Jacob, and Jacob -- the twelve patriarchs;
  • Exod 4:25 : 25 and Zipporah taketh a flint, and cutteth off the foreskin of her son, and causeth `it' to touch his feet, and saith, `Surely a bridegroom of blood `art' thou to me;'
  • Exod 12:48 : 48 `And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee, and hath made a passover to Jehovah, every male of his `is' to be circumcised, and then he doth come near to keep it, and he hath been as a native of the land, but any uncircumcised one doth not eat of it;
  • Deut 10:16 : 16 and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;
  • Josh 5:3 : 3 and Joshua maketh for him knives of flint, and circumciseth the sons of Israel at the height of the foreskins.
  • 1 Sam 18:25-27 : 25 And Saul saith, `Thus do ye say to David, There is no delight to the king in dowry, but in a hundred foreskins of the Philistines -- to be avenged on the enemies of the king;' and Saul thought to cause David to fall by the hand of the Philistines. 26 And his servants declare to David these words, and the thing is right in the eyes of David, to be son-in-law to the king; and the days have not been full, 27 and David riseth and goeth, he and his men, and smiteth among the Philistines two hundred men, and David bringeth in their foreskins, and they set them before the king, to be son-in-law to the king; and Saul giveth to him Michal his daughter for a wife.
  • 2 Sam 3:14 : 14 And David sendeth messengers unto Ish-Bosheth son of Saul, saying, `Give up my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself with a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 17:9-10
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    9And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

    10this `is' My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you `is' to be circumcised;

  • Gen 17:12-14
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    83%

    12`And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed;

    13he is certainly circumcised who `is' born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;

    14and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'

  • Lev 12:3
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    3and in the eighth day is the flesh of his foreskin circumcised;

  • Gen 17:23-27
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    23And Abraham taketh Ishmael his son, and all those born in his house, and all those bought with his money -- every male among the men of Abraham's house -- and circumciseth the flesh of their foreskin, in this self-same day, as God hath spoken with him.

    24And Abraham `is' a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

    25and Ishmael his son `is' a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

    26in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

    27and all the men of his house -- born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger -- have been circumcised with him.

  • Deut 10:16
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    16and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more;

  • Gen 17:7
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    7`And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

  • Gen 34:15-16
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    15`Only for this we consent to you; if ye be as we, to have every male of you circumcised,

    16then we have given our daughters to you, and your daughters we take to ourselves, and we have dwelt with you, and have become one people;

  • Gen 34:22
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    22`Only for this do the men consent to us, to dwell with us, to become one people, in every male of us being circumcised, as they are circumcised;

  • Acts 7:8
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    8`And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac `begat' Jacob, and Jacob -- the twelve patriarchs;

  • Gen 9:12
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    12And God saith, `This is a token of the covenant which I am giving between Me and you, and every living creature that `is' with you, to generations age-during;

  • John 7:22
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    22because of this, Moses hath given you the circumcision -- not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers -- and on a sabbath ye circumcise a man;

  • Gen 9:17
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    17And God saith unto Noah, `This `is' a token of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that `is' upon the earth.'

  • Exod 13:11
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    11`And it hath been, when Jehovah bringeth thee in unto the land of the Canaanite, as He hath sworn to thee and to thy fathers, and hath given it to thee,

  • Gen 17:2
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    2and I give My covenant between Me and thee, and multiply thee very exceedingly.'

  • 1 Cor 7:18-19
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    18being circumcised -- was any one called? let him not become uncircumcised; in uncircumcision was any one called? let him not be circumcised;

    19the circumcision is nothing, and the uncircumcision is nothing -- but a keeping of the commands of God.

  • Col 2:11
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    11in whom also ye were 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 the Christ,

  • Jer 34:18
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    18`And I have given the men who are transgressing My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant that they have made before Me, by the calf, that they have cut in two, and pass through between its pieces --

  • Deut 11:18
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    18`And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes;

  • Gen 21:4
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    4and Abraham circumciseth Isaac his son, `being' a son of eight days, as God hath commanded him.

  • Jer 9:25
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    25Lo, days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And I have laid a charge on all circumcised in the foreskin,

  • Deut 30:6
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    6`And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;

  • Gen 17:4
    71%

    4`I -- lo, My covenant `is' with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

  • Jer 4:4
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    4Be circumcised to Jehovah, And turn aside the foreskins of your heart, O man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, Lest My fury go out as fire, and hath burned, And there is none quenching, Because of the evil of your doings.

  • Ezek 44:7
    70%

    7In your bringing in sons of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in My sanctuary, to pollute it, even My house, in your bringing near My bread, fat, and blood, and they break My covenant by all your abominations,

  • Rom 2:25-28
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    25For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

    26If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned?

    27and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, `art' a transgressor of law.

    28For he is not a Jew who is `so' outwardly, neither `is' circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

  • Ezek 16:62
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    62And I -- I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I `am' Jehovah.

  • Eph 2:11
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    11Wherefore, remember, that ye `were' once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

  • Rom 4:11
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    11and a sign he did receive of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith in the uncircumcision, for his being father of all those believing through uncircumcision, for the righteousness also being reckoned to them,

  • Exod 12:44
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    44and any man's servant, the purchase of money, when thou hast circumcised him -- then he doth eat of it;

  • Ezek 44:9
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    9`Thus said the Lord Jehovah: No son of a stranger, uncircumcised of heart, and uncircumcised of flesh, cometh in unto My sanctuary, even any son of a stranger, who `is' in the midst of the sons of Israel,