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Genesis 17

Gen. 17:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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This is my covenant
briyth (Hebrew #1285)
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
KJV usage: confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
Pronounce: ber-eeth'
Origin: from 1262 (in the sense of cutting (like 1254))
, which ye shall keep
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, between me and you and thy seed
zera` (Hebrew #2233)
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
KJV usage: X carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing- time.
Pronounce: zeh'-rah
Origin: from 2232
after thee
'achar (Hebrew #310)
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
KJV usage: after (that, -ward), again, at, away from, back (from, -side), behind, beside, by, follow (after, -ing), forasmuch, from, hereafter, hinder end, + out (over) live, + persecute, posterity, pursuing, remnant, seeing, since, thence(-forth), when, with.
Pronounce: akh-ar'
Origin: from 309
; Every man child
zakar (Hebrew #2145)
properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
KJV usage: X him, male, man(child, -kind).
Pronounce: zaw-kawr'
Origin: from 2142
among you shall be circumcised
muwl (Hebrew #4135)
to cut short, i.e. curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e. to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
KJV usage: circumcise(-ing), selves), cut down (in pieces), destroy, X must needs.
Pronounce: mool
Origin: a primitive root
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Ministry on This Verse

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Gen. 17:11• 11And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and that shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. (Gen. 17:11)
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Gen. 34:15• 15But only in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we, that every male of you be circumcised; (Gen. 34:15)
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Ex. 4:25• 25Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me! (Ex. 4:25)
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Ex. 12:48• 48And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee, and would hold the passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and hold it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof. (Ex. 12:48)
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Deut. 10:16• 16Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more. (Deut. 10:16)
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Deut. 30:6• 6And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live. (Deut. 30:6)
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Josh. 5:2,4• 2At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make thee stone-knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
 4And this is the cause why Joshua circumcised them: all the people that had come out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they came out of Egypt. (Josh. 5:2,4)
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Jer. 4:4• 4Circumcise yourselves for Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my fury come forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings. (Jer. 4:4)
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Jer. 9:25‑26• 25Behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, when I will visit all them that are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
 26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their beard cut off, that dwell in the wilderness: for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart. (Jer. 9:25‑26)
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Acts 7:8• 8And he gave to him the covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs. (Acts 7:8)
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Rom. 2:28‑29• 28For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;
 29but he is a Jew who is so inwardly; and circumcision, of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. (Rom. 2:28‑29)
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Rom. 3:1,25,28,30• 1What then is the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?
 25whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;
 28for we reckon that a man is justified by faith, without works of law.
 30since indeed it is one God who shall justify the circumcision on the principle of faith, and uncircumcision by faith. (Rom. 3:1,25,28,30)
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Rom. 4:9‑11• 9Does this blessedness then rest on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
 10How then has it been reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.
 11And he received the sign of circumcision as seal of the righteousness of faith which he had being in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all them that believe being in uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also; (Rom. 4:9‑11)
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1 Cor. 7:18‑19• 18Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
 19Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but keeping God's commandments. (1 Cor. 7:18‑19)
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Gal. 3:28• 28There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus: (Gal. 3:28)
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Gal. 5:3‑6• 3And I witness again to every man who is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law.
 4Ye are deprived of all profit from the Christ as separated from him, as many as are justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.
 5For we, by the Spirit, on the principle of faith, await the hope of righteousness.
 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision has any force, nor uncircumcision; but faith working through love. (Gal. 5:3‑6)
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Gal. 6:12• 12As many as desire to have a fair appearance in the flesh, these compel you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted because of the cross of Christ. (Gal. 6:12)
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Eph. 2:11• 11Wherefore remember that *ye*, once nations in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in the flesh done with the hand; (Eph. 2:11)
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Phil. 3:3• 3For *we* are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh. (Phil. 3:3)
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Col. 2:11‑12• 11in whom also ye have been circumcised with circumcision not done by hand, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of the Christ;
 12buried with him in baptism, in which ye have been also raised with him through faith of the working of God who raised him from among the dead. (Col. 2:11‑12)
• {Circumcision} was, as we see here, an emblem significant of the putting flesh to death. God would have it dealt with as an unclean thing; and certainly this is not law. It may be turned to legalism as anything else; but in this case it is rather in contrast with law. It means flesh judged, which is the true spiritual meaning of that which God then instituted. (“Genesis 17” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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