Genesis 17:13
Good News Translation
Each one must be circumcised, and this will be a physical sign to show that my covenant with you is everlasting.

New Revised Standard Version
Both the slave born in your house and the one bought with your money must be circumcised. So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant.

New American Bible
Yes, both the houseborn slaves and those acquired with money must be circumcised. Thus my covenant will be in your flesh as an everlasting covenant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.

born.

Genesis 14:14 Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.

Genesis 15:3 And Abram added: But to me thou hast not given seed: and lo my servant born in my house, shall be my heir.

Exodus 12:44 But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.

Exodus 21:4 But if his master gave him a wife, and she hath borne sons and daughters; the woman and her children shall be her master's: but he himself shall go out with his raiment.

bought.

Genesis 37:27,36 It is better that he be sold to the Ismaelites, and that our hands be not defiled: for he is our brother and our flesh. His brethren agreed to his words. . . .

Genesis 39:1 And Joseph was brought into Egypt, and Putiphar, an eunuch of Pharao, chief captain of the army, an Egyptian, bought him of the Ismaelites, by whom he was brought.

Exodus 21:2,16 If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years shall he serve thee; in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing. . . .

Nehemiah 5:5,8 And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren: and our children as their children. Behold we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters, and some of our daughters are bondwomen already, neither have we wherewith to redeem them, and our fields and our vineyards other men possess. . . .

Matthew 18:25 And as he had not wherewith to pay it, his lord commanded that he should be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Context
The Covenant of Circumcision
12An infant of eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every manchild in your generations: he that is born in the house, as well as the bought servant, shall be circumcised, and whosoever is not of your stock: 13And my covenant shall be in your flesh for a perpetual covenant.14The male whose flesh of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant.…
Cross References
Genesis 9:16
And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, and shall remember the everlasting covenant, that was made between God and every living soul of all flesh which is upon the earth.

Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy seed after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.

Exodus 12:44
But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.

Leviticus 22:11
But he whom the priest hath bought, and he that is his servant, born in his house, these shall eat of them.

Genesis 17:12
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