On<n id="1" /> the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin<n id="2" /> must be circumcised.

Now Abraham was 99 years old<n id="1" /> when he was circumcised;<n id="2" />

Therefore, cleanse<n id="1" /> your heart and stop being so stubborn!<n id="2" />

You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder<n id="1" /> of the covenant between me and you.

his son Ishmael was thirteen years old<n id="1" /> when he was circumcised.

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8220;Watch out!<n id="1" /> The time is soon coming when I will punish all those who are circumcised only in the flesh.<n id="2" />

Any uncircumcised male<n id="1" /> who has not been circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin will be cut off<n id="2" /> from his people &#8211; he has failed to carry out my requirement.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

They said to them, &#8220;We cannot give<n id="1" /> our sister to a man who is not circumcised, for it would be a disgrace<n id="2" /> to us.

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses&#8217; feet,<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;Surely you are a bridegroom of blood<n id="2" /> to me.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money)<n id="1" /> and circumcised them<n id="2" /> on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;When you enter the land and plant any fruit tree,<n id="1" /> you must consider its fruit to be forbidden.<n id="2" /> Three years it will be forbidden to you;<n id="3" /> it must not be eaten.

Saul replied, &#8220;Here is what you should say to David: &#8216;There is nothing that the king wants as a price for the bride except a hundred Philistine foreskins, so that he can be avenged of his<n id="1" /> enemies.&#8217;&#8221; (Now Saul was thinking that he could kill David by the hand of the Philistines.)p>

when David, along with his men, went out<n id="1" /> and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king&#8217;s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.p>

<p class="bodytext">David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth son of Saul with this demand:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Give me my wife Michal whom I acquired<n id="2" /> for a hundred Philistine foreskins.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">Just as ritual circumcision cuts away the foreskinp> <p class="poetry">as an external symbol of dedicated covenant commitment,p> <p class="poetry">you must genuinely dedicate yourselves to the <sc>Lordsc>p> <p class="poetry">and get rid of everything that hinders your commitment to me,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem.p> <p class="poetry">If you do not,<n id="2" /> my anger will blaze up like a flaming fire against youp> <p class="poetry">that no one will be able to extinguish.p> <p class="poetry">That will happen because of the evil you have done.&#8221;p>