Genesis 17:14

Covenant and promises

¹² 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.

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

¹⁵ Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

¹⁶ And I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her. I will bless her, and she will be the mother of nations; kings of peoples will descend from her.”

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.

Compare

BSB: But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
KJV: And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
WEB: The 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.”
ASV: And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
DARBY: And the uncircumcised male who hath not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his peoples: he hath broken my covenant.
BLB: And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, the soul [of] that one shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

ÅB: Men en uomskåret av mannkjønn, en hvis forhud ikke blir omskåret, han skal utryddes av sitt folk; han har brutt min pakt.
OTB: Enhver uomskåret mann som ikke er omskåret på kjødet av sin forhud, skal skilles fra sitt folk; han har brutt min pakt.”
B1930: Men en uomskåret av mannkjønn, en hvis forhud ikke blir omskåret, han skal utryddes av sitt folk; han har brutt min pakt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Exodus 4:24–26
Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.
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Numbers 15:30–31
But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.
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Exodus 12:19
For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
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Exodus 30:33
Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”
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Isaiah 33:8
The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
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1 Corinthians 11:29
For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.
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Exodus 30:38
Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”
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Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
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