Genesis 21:4
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
In Context
3And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
5Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
Cross References
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.
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.
Deuteronomy 12:32See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
Luke 1:59On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
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.)
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 →