John 7:22

Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

Moses {G3475} therefore {G1223}{G5124} gave {G1325} unto you {G5213} circumcision {G4061};(not {G3756} because {G3754} it is {G2076} of {G1537} Moses {G3475}, but {G235} of {G1537} the fathers {G3962};) and {G2532} ye {G4059} on {G1722} the sabbath day {G4521} circumcise {G4059} a man {G444}.

Moshe gave you b’rit-milah — not that it came from Moshe but from the Patriarchs — and you do a boy’s b’rit-milah on Shabbat.

But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)

Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.

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Cross-References

  • Leviticus 12:3 (8 votes)

    And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

  • Genesis 17:10 (7 votes)

    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.

  • Genesis 17:14 (7 votes)

    And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

  • Romans 4:9 (4 votes)

    ¶ [Cometh] this blessedness then upon the circumcision [only], or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness.

  • Romans 4:11 (4 votes)

    And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which [he had yet] being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

  • Galatians 3:17 (2 votes)

    And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.