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(A)Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; (B)and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; (C)and Isaac begot Jacob, and (D)Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs.

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And He (A)gave him [a]the covenant of circumcision; and so (B)Abraham fathered Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and (C)Isaac fathered Jacob, and (D)Jacob, the twelve (E)patriarchs.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:8 Or a

And God gave Abraham a covenant [a formal agreement to be strictly observed] of [which] circumcision [was the sign]; and so [under these circumstances] Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac [became the father] of [a]Jacob, and Jacob [became the father] of the [b]twelve patriarchs.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 7:8 Jacob’s name was changed to Israel (Gen 32:28).
  2. Acts 7:8 Ancestral fathers of the twelve tribes: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin.

Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision.(A) And Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him eight days after his birth.(B) Later Isaac became the father of Jacob,(C) and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.(D)

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And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

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