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Circumcision
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Genesis 17:4“As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.Genesis 17:5No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.Genesis 17:6I will make you exceedingly fruitful; I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.Genesis 17:7I will establish My covenant as an everlasting covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you, to be your God and the God of your descendants after you.Genesis 17:8And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”Genesis 17:9God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.Genesis 17:10This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.Genesis 17:11You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.Genesis 17:12Generation 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.Genesis 17:13Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant.Genesis 17:14But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”Genesis 17:23On 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.Genesis 17:24So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,Genesis 17:25and his son Ishmael was thirteen;Genesis 17:26Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.Genesis 17:27And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.Genesis 21:3And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.Genesis 21:4When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.Genesis 34:24All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.Exodus 4:24Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.Exodus 4:25But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.Exodus 6:12But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”Exodus 12:48If 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.Leviticus 12:3And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.Deuteronomy 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.Joshua 5:2At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”Joshua 5:3So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.Joshua 5:4Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.Joshua 5:5Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.Joshua 5:6For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.Joshua 5:7And He raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.Joshua 5:8And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.Joshua 5:9Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So that place has been called Gilgal to this day.Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”Jeremiah 6:10To whom can I give this warning? Who will listen to me? Look, their ears are closed, so they cannot hear. See, the word of the LORD has become offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.Jeremiah 9:26Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab, and all the inhabitants of the desert who clip the hair of their temples. For all these nations are uncircumcised, and the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.”Luke 1:59On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.Luke 2:21When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.John 7:22But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)John 7:23If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?Acts 7:8Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.Acts 10:45All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.Acts 11:2So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with himActs 15:1Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”Acts 15:5But some believers from the party of the Pharisees stood up and declared, “The Gentiles must be circumcised and required to obey the law of Moses.”Acts 15:6So the apostles and elders met to look into this matter.Acts 15:7After much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you that the Gentiles would hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe.Acts 15:8And God, who knows the heart, showed His approval by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as He did to us.Acts 15:9He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.Acts 15:10Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?Acts 15:11On the contrary, we believe it is through the grace of the Lord Jesus that we are saved, just as they are.”Acts 15:12The whole assembly fell silent as they listened to Barnabas and Paul describing the signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles through them.Acts 15:13When they had finished speaking, James declared, “Brothers, listen to me!Acts 15:14Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.Acts 15:15The words of the prophets agree with this, as it is written:Acts 15:16‘After this I will return and rebuild the fallen tent of David. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,Acts 15:17so that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the Lord who does these thingsActs 15:18that have been known for ages.’Acts 15:19It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not cause trouble for the Gentiles who are turning to God.
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