Genesis 17:10

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“This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.”

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BSBPD

“This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
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“this <FI>is<Fi> My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you <FI>is<Fi> to be circumcised;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 17:10 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 17:11You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.
  2. Genesis 17:23On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
  3. Genesis 17:27And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.
  4. Genesis 21:4When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
  5. Genesis 34:15We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.
  6. Genesis 34:22But only on this condition will the men agree to dwell with us and be one people: if all our men are circumcised as they are.
  7. Exodus 4:25But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.
  8. 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.
  9. Deuteronomy 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
  10. Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
  11. Joshua 5:2At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”
  12. Joshua 5:4Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.
  13. Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
  14. Jeremiah 9:25“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
  15. 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.)
  16. Acts 7:8Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
  17. Romans 2:28A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
  18. Romans 3:25God presented Him as the atoning sacrifice through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
  19. Romans 3:28For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
  20. Romans 3:30since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
  21. Romans 4:9Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.
  22. 1 Corinthians 7:18Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised.
  23. Galatians 3:28There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  24. Galatians 5:3Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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