Genesis 21:4
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
In Context
3And Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
5And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born to him.
Cross References
Genesis 17:10This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.
Exodus 12:48And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the Passover to LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it, and he shall be as one who is born in the land, but no uncircumcised man sha
Deuteronomy 12:32Whatever thing I command you, that shall ye observe to do. Thou shall not add to it, nor diminish from it.
Luke 1:59And it came to pass on the eighth day, that they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling it by the name of his father Zacharias.
John 7:22Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and ye circumcise a man on a Sabbath.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:2-9
The Birth of Isaac. ( b. c. 1897.) 1 And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. 2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5 And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6 And Sarah said, God… Read the whole commentary →