Genesis 17:12
An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child 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:
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
13And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.
Cross References
Genesis 21:4And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him,
Exodus 12:48And 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.
Luke 1:59And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called him by his father's name Zachary.
John 7:22Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.
Romans 2:28For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly; nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh:
Matthew Henry on Genesis 17:8-15
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,… Read the whole commentary →