Genesis 17:10
Parallel Verses
New International Version
This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.


English Standard Version
This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.


New American Standard Bible
"This is My covenant, which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: every male among you shall be circumcised.


King James Bible
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.


Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is My covenant, which you are to keep, between Me and you and your offspring after you: Every one of your males must be circumcised.


International Standard Version
Here is my covenant that you are to observe, between me and you and your descendants: Every male among you is to be circumcised.


American Standard Version
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.


Douay-Rheims Bible
This is my covenant which you shall observe, between me and you, and thy seed after thee: All the male kind of you shall be circumcised:


Darby Bible Translation
This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee that every male among you be circumcised.


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


Commentaries
17:7-14 The covenant of grace is from everlasting in the counsels of it, and to everlasting in the consequences of it. The token of the covenant was circumcision. It is here said to be the covenant which Abraham and his seed must keep. Those who will have the Lord to be to them a God, must resolve to be to him a people. Not only Abraham and Isaac, and his posterity by Isaac, were to be circumcised, but also Ishmael and the bond-servants. It sealed not only the covenant of the land of Canaan to Isaac's posterity, but of heaven, through Christ, to the whole church of God. The outward sign is for the visible church; the inward seal of the Spirit is peculiar to those whom God knows to be believers, and he alone can know them. The religious observance of this institution was required, under a very severe penalty. It is dangerous to make light of Divine institutions, and to live in the neglect of them. The covenant in question was one that involved great blessings for the world in all future ages. Even the blessedness of Abraham himself, and all the rewards conferred upon him, were for Christ's sake. Abraham was justified, as we have seen, not by his own righteousness, but by faith in the promised Messiah.

10. Every man child among you shall be circumcised—This was the sign in the Old Testament Church as baptism is in the New, and hence the covenant is called "covenant of circumcision" (Ac 7:8; Ro 4:11). The terms of the covenant were these: on the one hand Abraham and his seed were to observe the right of circumcision; and on the other, God promised, in the event of such observance, to give them Canaan for a perpetual possession, to be a God to him and his posterity, and that in him and his seed all nations should be blessed.
Genesis 17:9
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