Genesis 21:4
and Abraham circumcises his son Isaac, [being] a son of eight days, as God has commanded him.
Literal Standard 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 calls the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah has borne to him—Isaac;
5And Abraham [is] a son of one hundred years in his son Isaac being born to him,
Cross References
Genesis 17:10this [is] My covenant which you keep between Me and you, and your seed after you: every male of you [is] to be circumcised;
Exodus 12:48And when a sojourner sojourns with you, and has made a Passover to YHWH, every male of his [is] to be circumcised, and then he comes near to keep it, and he has been as a native of the land, but any uncircumcised one does not eat of it;
Deuteronomy 12:32The whole thing which I am commanding you, you observe to do it; you do not add to it, nor diminish from it.”
Luke 1:59And it came to pass, on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias,
John 7:22because of this, Moses has given you the circumcision—not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers—and on a Sabbath you circumcise a man;
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 →