Bible Verses About Circumcision

`I--lo, My covenant is with thee, and thou hast become father of a multitude of nations;

and thy name is no more called Abram, but thy name hath been Abraham, for father of a multitude of nations have I made thee;

and I have made thee exceeding fruitful, and made thee become nations, and kings go out from thee.

`And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;

and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'

And God saith unto Abraham, `And thou dost keep My covenant, thou and thy seed after thee, to their generations;

this is My covenant which ye keep between Me and you, and thy seed after thee: Every male of you is to be circumcised;

and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.

`And a son of eight days is circumcised by you; every male to your generations, born in the house, or bought with money from any son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed;

he is certainly circumcised who is born in thine house, or bought with thy money; and My covenant hath become in your flesh a covenant age-during;

and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'

And Abraham is a son of ninety and nine years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

and Ishmael his son is a son of thirteen years in the flesh of his foreskin being circumcised;

in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

and all the men of his house--born in the house, and bought with money from the son of a stranger--have been circumcised with him.

and Abraham calleth the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah hath born to him--Isaac;

and Abraham circumciseth Isaac his son, being a son of eight days, as God hath commanded him.

And Saul saith, `Thus do ye say to David, There is no delight to the king in dowry, but in a hundred foreskins of the Philistines--to be avenged on the enemies of the king;' and Saul thought to cause David to fall by the hand of the Philistines.

And his servants declare to David these words, and the thing is right in the eyes of David, to be son-in-law to the king; and the days have not been full,

and David riseth and goeth, he and his men, and smiteth among the Philistines two hundred men, and David bringeth in their foreskins, and they set them before the king, to be son-in-law to the king; and Saul giveth to him Michal his daughter for a wife.

and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

And it came to pass, on the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child, and they were calling him by the name of his father, Zacharias,

and his mother answering said, `No, but he shall be called John.'

And they said unto her--`There is none among thy kindred who is called by this name,'

and there rose up certain of those of the sect of the Pharisees who believed, saying--`It behoveth to circumcise them, to command them also to keep the law of Moses.'