Quotes About Circumcision

So Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

We will consent to this on one condition, that you become circumcised like us—every one of your males.

But if you will not agree to be circumcised, then we will take our sister and go.”

But 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.

All the men who went out of the city gate listened to Hamor and his son Shechem, and every male of the city was circumcised.

So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)

But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORDís 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.

And on the eighth day the flesh of the boyís foreskin is to be circumcised.

Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.

At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Now 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.

Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.

And Joshua raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones he circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.

And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.

Circumcise 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.”

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:

Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.

On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.

When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.

But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)