Genesis 21:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.”
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“When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and Abraham circumciseth Isaac his son, <FI>being<Fi> a son of eight days, as God hath commanded him.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Genesis 21:4 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 17:10This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
- Genesis 17:12Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
- 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.
- Leviticus 12:3And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
- Deuteronomy 12:32See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.
- Luke 1:6Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
- Luke 1:59On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
- Luke 2:21When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.
- 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.)
- 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.
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