Bible Verses About Circumcision

"As for me, this is my covenant with you: you will be the father of many nations.

Your name will no longer be Avram [exalted father], but your name will be Avraham [father of many], because I have made you the father of many nations.

I will cause you to be very fruitful. I will make nations of you, kings will descend from you.

"I am establishing my covenant between me and you, along with your descendants after you, generation after generation, as an everlasting covenant, to be God for you and for your descendants after you.

I will give you and your descendants after you the land in which you are now foreigners, all the land of Kena'an, as a permanent possession; and I will be their God."

God said to Avraham, "As for you, you are to keep my covenant, you and your descendants after you, generation after generation.

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 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.

Avraham called his son, born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Yitz'chak.

Avraham circumcised his son Yitz'chak when he was eight days old, as God had ordered him to do.

Sha'ul said, "Here's what you are to say to David: 'The king doesn't want any dowry; he wants a hundred foreskins of the P'lishtim, so that he can have vengeance on the king's enemies." For Sha'ul was hoping to have David killed by the P'lishtim.

When his servants said these words to David, it pleased David to become the king's son-in-law. Even before the time [for him to be married],

David got up and set out, he and his men, and killed two hundred men of the P'lishtim. He brought their foreskins and gave all of them to the king in order to become the king's son-in-law. Then Sha'ul gave him Mikhal his daughter as his wife.

Her neighbors and relatives heard how good ADONAI had been to her, and they rejoiced with her.

On the eighth day, they came to do the child's b'rit-milah. They were about to name him Z'kharyah, after his father,

when his mother spoke up and said, "No, he is to be called Yochanan."

They said to her, "None of your relatives has that name,"

But some of those who had come to trust were from the party of the P’rushim; and they stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and direct them to observe the Torah of Moshe.”