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This is the first 1,000 characters of 2563 words (10.25 pages) in the essay titled Circumcision In the first biblical mention of circumcision, God made a covenant with Abraham and his descendants. God said to Abram, I am God Almighty; walk before me and be blameless. God then explained his part of the covenant --- he would be the God of Abraham s descendants and give them the land of Canaan (Genesis 17:1-8); God then further explained Abraham s part of the covenant (verses 10-14). This is...the covenant you are to keep. Every male was to be circumcised, and this physical rite was to be the sign of the covenant with God, and it was an everlasting covenant. Every male in Abraham s household was to be circumcised immediately, and from then on every new baby boy was to be circumcised on the eighth day. Whether they were Hebrews or whether they were purchased as slaves, the men had to be circumcised. If they were not, they would be cut off; they had broken the covenant. Abraham did what God told him to do (verses 23-27; 21:4). The practice of circumcision became the defining characteristic of the Abraham-Isaac-Jacob clan. Many years later, the sons of Jacob used this custom to get revenge on Shechem (Genesis 34:14-29). As they said, they could cohabitate and intermarry only with people who were circumcised (verse 16).“The custom was probably continued when the Israelites lived in Goshen.” But Moses, reared in the court of Pharaoh and later a refugee in Sinai, did not circumcise his own son. Zipporah had to do it (Exodus 4:24-25). Under the leadership of Moses... |
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Keywords: everlasting covenant, god of abraham, abraham isaac, circumcised, moses, land of canaan, zipporah, circumcision, genesis 17, sons of jacob, shechem, circumcise, cohabitate, proceeded, israelites, descendants, joshua, god almighty, i am god, god said