25 Bible Verses About Circumcision
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Featured Verse
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
Bible Verses About Circumcision
And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
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.
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.
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, were circumcised with him.
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
And they said unto them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us:
But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
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