Genesis Chapter 17 verse 11 Holy Bible
And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you.
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In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.
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And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and [that] shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
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And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
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And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
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You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of a covenant between me and you.
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and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin. עָרְלָה, ἀκροβυστία, membrum prveputiatum, from עָרַל, to be naked, bare, hence to be odious, unclean, impure, was regarded afterwards as unclean (Deuteronomy 10:16; Isaiah 52:3; Jeremiah 4:4), and is here directed to be deprived of the skin covering its extremity, not because through it sin first discovered its effects (Peele), and original corruption is still transmitted (Lapide, Augustine), or to promote cleanliness (Philo), or to express detestation of certain idolatrous rites which were paid to it by the Egyptians and other heathen nations (Lyra, Kalisch), but (1) as a sign of the faith that Christ should be descended from him (Lapide); (2) as a symbolic representation of the putting away of the filth of the flesh and of sin in general (Calvin). Hence it served a variety of uses: (1) to distinguish the seed of Abraham from the Gentiles, . . .
