Genesis 21:4

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Genesis 21:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.

3 And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

6 Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 17:10

This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

Genesis 17:11

You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Genesis 17:12

Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.

Exodus 12:48

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

Leviticus 12:3

And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.

Deuteronomy 12:32

See that you do everything I command you; do not add to it or subtract from it.

Luke 1:6

Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

Luke 1:59

On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.

Luke 2:21

When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.

John 7:22

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

John 7:23

If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?

Acts 7:8

Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.