Genesis 17:14

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“But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.””

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BSBPD

“But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 17:14 — 19 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 4:24Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him.
  2. Exodus 12:15For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
  3. Exodus 12:19For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
  4. Exodus 30:33Anyone who mixes perfume like it or puts it on an outsider shall be cut off from his people.’”
  5. Exodus 30:38Anyone who makes something like it to enjoy its fragrance shall be cut off from his people.”
  6. Leviticus 7:20But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.
  7. Leviticus 7:25If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which an offering made by fire may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.
  8. Leviticus 7:27If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”
  9. Leviticus 18:29Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people.
  10. Leviticus 19:8Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.
  11. Numbers 15:30But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.
  12. Joshua 5:2At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”
  13. Psalms 55:20My companion attacks his friends; he violates his covenant.
  14. Isaiah 24:5The earth is defiled by its people; they have transgressed the laws; they have overstepped the decrees and broken the everlasting covenant.
  15. Isaiah 33:8The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.
  16. Jeremiah 11:10They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
  17. Jeremiah 31:32It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt— a covenant they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD.
  18. 1 Corinthians 11:27Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord.
  19. 1 Corinthians 11:29For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

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