Leviticus 12:3
In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
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In The King James Version
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 17:11You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
Leviticus 15:3This shall be his uncleanness in his discharge: whether his body runs with his discharge, or his body has stopped from his discharge, it is his uncleanness.
Luke 1:59On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.
John 7:22Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
Romans 4:11He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
Galatians 5:3Yes, I testify again to every man who receives circumcision that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 12:2-6
Ceremonial Purification. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean. 3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. 4 And she shall then continue in the blood of her purifying three and thirty days; she shall touch no hallowed thing, nor come into the sanctuary,… Read the whole commentary →