They must indeed be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money. The sign of my covenant will be visible in your flesh as a permanent reminder.

I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.

Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.”

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

“Look! I now confirm my covenant with you and your descendants after you

I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.

Then God said to Abraham, “As for you, you must keep the covenantal requirement I am imposing on you and your descendants after you throughout their generations.

You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.

Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.

So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.”

God said, “No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark – you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you.

I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”

And God said, “This is the guarantee of the covenant I am making with you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all subsequent generations:

When the rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it and remember the perpetual covenant between God and all living creatures of all kinds that are on the earth.”

So God said to Noah, “This is the guarantee of the covenant that I am confirming between me and all living things that are on the earth.”

A fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty with Abram.)

This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

Any uncircumcised male who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off from his people – he has failed to carry out my requirement.”

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”