Genesis 17:24

And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

In Context

23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham`s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.

25And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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Cross References

Genesis 12:4So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Genesis 17:17Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is a hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Genesis 21:5And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

Romans 4:19And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah`s womb;

Matthew Henry on Genesis 17:24-27

Circumcision of Abraham, &c. ( b. c. 1898.) 23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him. 24 And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25 And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26 In the selfsame day… Read the whole commentary →

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