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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 unto 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 to 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 that none can quench it because of the evil of your doings. (Jer. 4:4)
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Jer. 9:25‑26• 25Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised;
 26Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. (Jer. 9:25‑26)
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Acts 7:8• 8And he gave him a covenant of circumcision, and thus he begat Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac, Jacob; and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs. (Acts 7:8)
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Rom. 2:28‑29• 28For he that is outwardly a Jew is not [one], nor [is] that which is outward in flesh circumcision,
 29but he that [is so] hiddenly [is] a Jew, and circumcision of heart in spirit, not in letter, the praise of whom [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 set forth as a propitiatory through faith in his blood, for a declaration of his righteousness on account of the praeter-mission of the sins that had been before, in the forbearance of God,
 28We reckon then that a man is justified by faith apart from works of law.
 30since God [is] one who shall justify [the] circumcision by faith and uncircumcision through faith? (Rom. 3:1,25,28,30)
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Rom. 4:9‑11• 9This blessedness then [cometh it] upon the circumcision or also upon the uncircumcision? For we say that to Abraham faith was reckoned for righteousness.
 10How then was it 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 the faith that [he had] in uncircumcision, in order to his being father of all that believe in a state of uncircumcision, that righteousness might be reckoned to them also, (Rom. 4:9‑11)
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1 Cor. 7:18‑19• 18Was anyone called circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Hath anyone 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 bondservant nor freeman, there is no male and female; for all ye are one in Christ Jesus. (Gal. 3:28)
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Gal. 5:3‑6• 3And I witness again to every man if circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
 4Ye have derived no effect from Christ, whoever are being justified by law; ye have fallen from grace.
 5For we in the Spirit await by faith the hope of righteousness.
 6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision hath any force nor uncircumcision, but faith working by love. (Gal. 5:3‑6)
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Gal. 6:12• 12As many as wish to have a fair appearance in the flesh, these are compelling you to be circumcised, only that they may not be persecuted through the cross of Christ. (Gal. 6:12)
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Eph. 2:11• 11Wherefore remember that once ye, the nations in [the] flesh, that are called uncircumcision by that called circumcision in [the] flesh made by hand, (Eph. 2:11)
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Phil. 3:3• 3for we are the circumcision that worship God in Spirit and boast in Christ Jesus, and have no trust in flesh. (Phil. 3:3)
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Col. 2:11‑12• 11in whom also ye were circumcised with circumcision not wrought by hand, in the putting off the body of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ;
 12buried with him in baptism, in which ye were also raised with [him] through faith in the working of God that raised him out of 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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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.