Bible Verses About Abraham: Circumcision of

Here is my covenant, which you are to keep, between me and you, along with your descendants after you: every male among you is to be circumcised.

You are to be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; this will be the sign of the covenant between me and you.

Generation after generation, every male among you who is eight days old is to be circumcised, including slaves born within your household and those bought from a foreigner not descended from you.

The slave born in your house and the person bought with your money must be circumcised; thus my covenant will be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.

Any uncircumcised male who will not let himself be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin -that person will be cut off from his people, because he has broken my covenant."

Avraham took Yishma'el his son, all the slaves born in his house and all who had been bought with his money, every male among the people in Avraham's household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin that very day, just as God had said to him.

Avraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin,

and Yishma'el his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Avraham and Yishma'el his son were circumcised on the same day;

and all the men in his household, both slaves born in his house and those bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.