Genesis 17:13
He who is born into your household and he who is bought with your money must be circumcised. Thus my covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant.
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Genesis 9:16The rainbow will be in the clouds and I will see it, in order to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
Genesis 15:3Abram said, “Since you have given me no descendant, see, the steward of my house is my heir.”
Genesis 37:36The Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard.
Exodus 12:44However, every Israelite's slave, bought with money, may eat it after you have circumcised him.
Exodus 21:4If his master gave him a wife and she bore him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will belong to her master, and he must go free by himself.
Leviticus 22:11But if a priest buys any slave with his own money, that slave may eat from the things set apart to Yahweh. The priest's family members and slaves born in his house, they also may eat with him from those things.
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 →