Genesis 17:9-14

The Voice

⁹ (continuing to Abraham) As for your part in the agreement, you and your descendants must keep My covenant throughout the generations. ^10-11 The sign that you and your family keep My covenant is this: each male who lives among you shall be circumcised. The circumcised flesh of your foreskins constitutes a special “sign” of the covenant I made with you, a relationship bonded together by loyalty and love. ^12-13 From this point onward, throughout coming generations, each male child born to you should be circumcised when he is eight days old. You must circumcise all male members of your household, even the slaves born within your household or the servants purchased from foreigners who aren’t your flesh and blood; anyone and everyone within your household must carry this sign. This external mark on his body will be a sign of My everlasting covenant. ¹⁴ Any male who is not separated from his foreskin will be cut off from his people and excluded from these covenant promises because he has broken My covenant.