KJV King James Version
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.
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Genesis 17:10
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
WEB World English Bible
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your seed after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.
ASV American Standard Version
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
this is My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you is to be circumcised;
Surrounding context — Genesis 17
7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
9 And God said unto Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in their generations.
10 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.
11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
12 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.
13 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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
זֹ֣אתH2063 · zotthisבְּרִיתִ֞יH1285 · be.ritcovenantאֲשֶׁ֣רH834 · a.sherwhichתִּשְׁמְר֗וּH8104 · sha.marto keep: obeyבֵּינִי֙H996 · ba.yinbetweenוּבֵ֣ינֵיכֶ֔םH996 · ba.yinbetweenוּבֵ֥יןH996 · ba.yinbetweenזַרְעֲךָ֖H2233 · ze.raseedאַחֲרֶ֑יךָH310 · a.charafterהִמּ֥וֹלH4135 · multo circumciseלָכֶ֖םH9036 · khemyouכָּל־H3605 · kolallזָכָֽר׃H2145 · za.kharmale
Cross-references
Colossians 2:11-12In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:Acts 7:8And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so [Abraham] begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac [begat] Jacob; and Jacob [begat] the twelve patriarchs.Galatians 5:3-6For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.Romans 4:9-11[Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision [only], or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.Genesis 17:11And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.Romans 3:30Seeing [it is] one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.1 Corinthians 7:18-19Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.Philippians 3:3For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.Joshua 5:2At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.Ephesians 2:11Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;Deuteronomy 30:6And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.Galatians 6:12As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.Romans 3:25Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;Genesis 34:15But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we [be], that every male of you be circumcised;Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench [it], because of the evil of your doings.Romans 3:28Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.Joshua 5:4And 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.Exodus 4:25Then 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.
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