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circumcised, and those whom
thou hast bought with money
will be circumcised, and My
covenant will be in your flesh
for an eternal ordinance.
For 14 cf.
Gn. 17:14 14 And the uncircumcised
Later male who is not circumcised
Judaism
changed in the flesh of his foreskin on
this as they the eighth day, that soul will
have much of
Torah. be cut off from his people, for
he hath broken My covenant.”
For 15-22 cf. 15 And Elohim said unto
Gn. 17:15-22 Abraham: “As for Sarai thy
wife, her name will no more be
called Sarai, but Sarah will be
her name. 16 And I shall bless
her, and give thee a son by
her, and I shall bless him, and
So LXX, he will become a nation, and
Sam., Syr. kings of nations will proceed
and Vulg. of
Gn. 17:22. from him.” 17 And Abraham
But MT
makes the fell on his face, and rejoiced,
text refer to
Sarah (“yea, and said in his heart: “Shall a
I will bless
her, [and son be born to him that is a
she shall be
a mother of hundred years old, and shall
nations: kings
of peoples Sarah, who is ninety years
shall be of
her],” R.V.). old, bring forth?” 18 And
Abraham said unto Elohim:
“O that Ishmael might live
before thee!” 19 And Elohim
said: “Yea, and Sarah also will
bear thee a son, and thou wilt
call his name Isaac, and I shall
establish My covenant with
him, an everlasting covenant,
and for his seed after him.
20 And as for Ishmael also
have I heard thee, and behold
I shall bless him, and make
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him great, and multiply him
exceedingly, and he will beget
twelve princes, and I shall
make him a great nation.
21 But My covenant shall I
establish with Isaac, whom
Sarah will bear to thee, in
these days, in the next year.”
22 And He left off speaking
with him, and Elohim went
up from Abraham. 23 And
Abraham did according as For 23-24 cf.
Elohim had said unto him, and Gn. 17:23-27
he took Ishmael his son, and
all that were born in his house,
and whom he had bought
with his money, every male
in his house, and circumcised
the flesh of their foreskin.
24 And on the selfsame day
was Abraham circumcised, i. e. the 15th
Sivan.
and all the men of his house, ofShavuot.
(and those born in the house),
and all those, whom he had
bought with money from the
children of the stranger, were
circumcised with him. 25 This
law is for all the generations
for ever, and there is no i. e.? of
circumcision of the days, and the days
preceding the
no omission of one day out eighth day.
of the eight days; for it is an
eternal ordinance, ordained
on the
and written on the heavenly Only
eighth day is
tables. 26 And every one that the rite to be
performed.
is born, the flesh of whose
foreskin is not circumcised on
the eighth day, belongeth not
to the children of the
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