Genesis 17:12

Covenant and promises

¹⁰ This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

¹¹ You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.

¹³ Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.

¹⁴ But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
KJV: And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
WEB: He who is eight days old shall 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 offspring.
ASV: And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any foreigner that is not of thy seed.
DARBY: And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.
BLB: And a son of eight days among you⁺ shall be circumcised—every male child in your⁺ generations who is born in your house or bought with silver from any son of a foreigner who is not of your seed.

ÅB: Åtte dager gammelt skal hvert guttebarn hos dere omskjæres, generasjon etter generasjon, både den som er født hjemme, og den som er kjøpt for penger, alle som hører til et fremmed folk og ikke er av din slekt.
OTB: Hver gutt blant dere som er åtte dager gammel, skal omskjæres gjennom deres generasjoner, også de som er født i ditt hus eller kjøpt med penger fra en fremmed, som ikke er av din ætt.
B1930: Åtte dager gammelt skal hvert guttebarn hos eder omskjæres, slekt efter slekt, både den som er født hjemme, og den som er kjøpt for penger, alle som hører til et fremmed folk og ikke er av din ætt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Leviticus 12:3
And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
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Luke 2:21
When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.
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Philippians 3:5
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
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Exodus 12:48–49
If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
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Luke 1:59
On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
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John 7:22–23
But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)
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Genesis 21:4
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
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Genesis 17:23
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
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