Genesis 17:11
New Revised Standard Version
You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.

New American Bible
Circumcise the flesh of your foreskin. That will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.

the flesh.

Exodus 4:25 Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

Joshua 5:3 He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.

1 Samuel 18:25-27 And Saul said: Speak thus to David: The king desireth not any dowry, but only a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. Now Saul thought to deliver David into the hands of the Philistines. . . .

2 Samuel 3:14 And David sent messengers to Isboseth the son of Saul, saying: Restore my wife Michol, whom I espoused to me for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

a token.

Acts 7:8 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.

Romans 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

Context
The Covenant of Circumcision
10This is my covenant which you shall observe between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male-kind of you shall be circumcised. 11And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.12An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every manchild in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock:…
Cross References
Acts 7:8
And he gave him the covenant of circumcision. And so he begot Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.

Romans 4:11
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the justice of the faith which he had, being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, being uncircumcised: that unto them also it may be reputed to justice:

Genesis 9:12
And God said: This is the sign of the covenant which I give between me and you, and to every living soul that is with you, for perpetual generations.

Exodus 12:48
And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep the Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and then shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as he that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall not eat thereof.

Deuteronomy 10:16
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

Genesis 17:10
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