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he has broken my covenant.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/genesis/17.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Any male who fails to be circumcised will be cut off from the covenant family for breaking the covenant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/genesis/17.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/genesis/17.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/genesis/17.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/genesis/17.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />And the uncircumcised male child, who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/genesis/17.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />But <i>as for</i> an uncircumcised male, one who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/genesis/17.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/genesis/17.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/genesis/17.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />But an uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/genesis/17.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />And the male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/genesis/17.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/genesis/17.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />If any male is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that man will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.&#8221 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/genesis/17.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/genesis/17.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Any man who isn't circumcised hasn't kept his part of the promise and cannot be one of my people. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/genesis/17.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/genesis/17.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Any uncircumcised male must be excluded from his people because he has rejected my promise."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/genesis/17.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Any male who has not been circumcised will no longer be considered one of my people, because he has not kept the covenant with me." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/genesis/17.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Any uncircumcised male who does not have the foreskin of his flesh circumcised on the eighth day after his birth is to be eliminated from his people because he has broken my covenant."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/genesis/17.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/genesis/17.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />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." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/genesis/17.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that person shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/genesis/17.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And the uncircumcised male-child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/genesis/17.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/genesis/17.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, indeed, that person has been cut off from his people; My covenant he has broken.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/genesis/17.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/genesis/17.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And the uncircumcised male which shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his uncircumcision, and that soul shall be cut off from its people: he broke my covenant.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/genesis/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The male, whose dash of his foreskin shall not be circumcised, that soul shall be destroyed out of his people: because he hath broken my covenant. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/genesis/17.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />The male, the flesh of whose foreskin will not be circumcised, that soul shall be eliminated from his people. For he has made my covenant void.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/genesis/17.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />If a male is uncircumcised, that is, if the flesh of his foreskin has not been cut away, such a one will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/genesis/17.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/genesis/17.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his people; for he has broken my covenant.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/genesis/17.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And God said to Abraham, “You shall not call the name of Sarai your wife, Sarai, because Sara is her name.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/genesis/17.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And the uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken My covenant.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/genesis/17.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And the uncircumcised male, who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from its family, for he has broken my covenant.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/genesis/17-14.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7ehevn8iSgc?start=3561" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/genesis/17.htm">The Covenant of Circumcision</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">13</span>Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant. <span class="reftext">14</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/6189.htm" title="6189: wə·‘ā·rêl (Conj-w:: Adj-ms) -- Having foreskin (uncircumcised). Rom arel; properly, exposed, i.e. Projecting loose; used only technically, uncircumcised."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2145.htm" title="2145: zā·ḵār (N-ms) -- Male. From zakar; properly, remembered, i.e. A male.">But if any male</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">is not</a> <a href="/hebrew/4135.htm" title="4135: yim·mō·wl (V-Nifal-Imperf-3ms) -- To circumcise. A primitive root; to cut short, i.e. Curtail; by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy.">circumcised,</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1320.htm" title="1320: bə·śar (N-msc) -- Flesh. From basar; flesh; by extension, body, person; also The pudenda of a man."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6190.htm" title="6190: ‘ā·rə·lā·ṯōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Foreskin. Feminine of arel; the prepuce."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: ha·hi·w (Art:: Pro-3fs) -- He, she, it. ">he</a> <a href="/hebrew/5315.htm" title="5315: han·ne·p̄eš (Art:: N-fs) -- From naphash; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. Animal of vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3772.htm" title="3772: wə·niḵ·rə·ṯāh (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConjPerf-3fs) -- To cut off, cut down. A primitive root; to cut; by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant.">will be cut off</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: mê·‘am·me·hā (Prep-m:: N-mpc:: 3fs) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">from his people;</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6565.htm" title="6565: hê·p̄ar (V-Hifil-Perf-3ms) -- To break up, to violate, frustrate. A primitive root; to break up">he has broken</a> <a href="/hebrew/1285.htm" title="1285: bə·rî·ṯî (N-fsc:: 1cs) -- A covenant. From barah (like bara'); a compact.">My covenant.”</a> </span><span class="reftext">15</span>Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/12-3.htm">Leviticus 12:3</a></span><br />And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/4-24.htm">Exodus 4:24-26</a></span><br />Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. / But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. / So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-3.htm">Galatians 5:3</a></span><br />Again I testify to every man who gets himself circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/2-25.htm">Romans 2:25-29</a></span><br />Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision. / If a man who is not circumcised keeps the requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? / The one who is physically uncircumcised yet keeps the law will condemn you who, even though you have the written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/7-8.htm">Acts 7:8</a></span><br />Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/2-11.htm">Colossians 2:11-13</a></span><br />In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of your sinful nature, with the circumcision performed by Christ and not by human hands. / And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead. / When you were dead in your trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our trespasses,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/10-16.htm">Deuteronomy 10:16</a></span><br />Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/4-4.htm">Jeremiah 4:4</a></span><br />Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/philippians/3-3.htm">Philippians 3:3</a></span><br />For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/7-18.htm">1 Corinthians 7:18-19</a></span><br />Was a man already circumcised when he was called? He should not become uncircumcised. Was a man still uncircumcised when called? He should not be circumcised. / Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commandments is what counts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/26-41.htm">Leviticus 26:41</a></span><br />and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/44-7.htm">Ezekiel 44:7-9</a></span><br />In addition to all your other abominations, you brought in foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh to occupy My sanctuary; you defiled My temple when you offered My food—the fat and the blood; you broke My covenant. / And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’ / This is what the Lord GOD says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary—not even a foreigner who lives among the Israelites.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/15-1.htm">Acts 15:1</a></span><br />Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joshua/5-2.htm">Joshua 5:2-9</a></span><br />At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.” / So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. / Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/4-11.htm">Romans 4:11-12</a></span><br />And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them. / And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.</p><p class="hdg">cut.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/4-24.htm">Exodus 4:24-26</a></b></br> And it came to pass by the way in the inn, that the LORD met him, and sought to kill him… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15,19</a></b></br> Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/30-33.htm">Exodus 30:33,38</a></b></br> Whosoever compoundeth <i>any</i> like it, or whosoever putteth <i>any</i> of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people… </p><p class="hdg">broken.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/55-20.htm">Psalm 55:20</a></b></br> He hath put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his covenant.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/24-5.htm">Isaiah 24:5</a></b></br> The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/33-8.htm">Isaiah 33:8</a></b></br> The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/genesis/8-11.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/genesis/17-12.htm">Child</a> <a href="/genesis/17-13.htm">Circumcised</a> <a href="/genesis/17-13.htm">Circumcision</a> <a href="/genesis/17-13.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/genesis/15-10.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/genesis/17-13.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/genesis/17-11.htm">Foreskin</a> <a href="/genesis/17-12.htm">Male</a> <a href="/genesis/17-12.htm">Male-Child</a> <a href="/genesis/12-3.htm">Peoples</a> <a href="/genesis/12-13.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/colossians/3-11.htm">Uncircumcised</a> <a href="/genesis/17-13.htm">Undergo</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/27-40.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/genesis/17-17.htm">Child</a> <a href="/genesis/17-23.htm">Circumcised</a> <a href="/genesis/17-24.htm">Circumcision</a> <a href="/genesis/17-19.htm">Covenant</a> <a href="/genesis/41-14.htm">Cut</a> <a href="/genesis/17-23.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/genesis/17-23.htm">Foreskin</a> <a href="/genesis/17-23.htm">Male</a> <a href="/leviticus/12-2.htm">Male-Child</a> <a href="/genesis/17-16.htm">Peoples</a> <a href="/genesis/19-20.htm">Soul</a> <a href="/genesis/34-14.htm">Uncircumcised</a> <a href="/genesis/21-4.htm">Undergo</a><div class="vheading2">Genesis 17</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/17-1.htm">God renews the covenant with Abram, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/17-5.htm">and changes his name to Abraham, in token of a greater blessing.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/17-9.htm">Circumcision is instituted.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/17-15.htm">Sarai's name is changed to Sarah, and she is blessed.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/17-17.htm">Isaac is promised, and the time of his birth fixed.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/genesis/17-23.htm">Abraham and Ishmael are circumcised.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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It was a requirement for all male descendants and those within Abraham's household, including servants. This practice set the Israelites apart from other nations and was a mark of their unique relationship with God. In the ancient Near East, circumcision was not universally practiced, making it a distinctive sign for the Israelites. Theologically, it symbolized the cutting away of sin and a commitment to holiness.<p><b>he will be cut off from his people;</b><br>The phrase "cut off" indicates a severe consequence, often implying death or excommunication. In the context of the covenant, it meant exclusion from the community and the blessings associated with being part of God's chosen people. This reflects the seriousness of covenantal obligations and the importance of obedience. The concept of being "cut off" is echoed in other parts of Scripture, such as <a href="/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15</a> and <a href="/leviticus/7-20.htm">Leviticus 7:20-21</a>, where it denotes separation from the community due to disobedience.<p><b>he has broken My covenant.”</b><br>Breaking the covenant was a grave offense, as it represented a breach in the relationship with God. The covenant with Abraham was foundational for the identity and mission of Israel. It was not merely a legal agreement but a relational bond that required faithfulness. The breaking of the covenant through failure to perform circumcision was seen as a rejection of God's promises and commands. This idea of covenant faithfulness is central throughout the Bible, with the New Testament emphasizing a new covenant through Jesus Christ, who fulfills and transcends the old covenant (<a href="/hebrews/8-6.htm">Hebrews 8:6-13</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The divine being who establishes the covenant with Abraham and his descendants, emphasizing the importance of circumcision as a sign of this covenant.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/a/abraham.htm">Abraham</a></b><br>The patriarch with whom God makes a covenant, promising him numerous descendants and the land of Canaan. Circumcision is given as a physical sign of this covenant.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/c/covenant.htm">Covenant</a></b><br>A solemn agreement between God and Abraham, signifying a special relationship and commitment. Circumcision is the physical sign of this covenant.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/c/circumcision.htm">Circumcision</a></b><br>A physical act required by God as a sign of the covenant, symbolizing purity and dedication to God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_people_of_israel.htm">The People of Israel</a></b><br>The descendants of Abraham who are to uphold the covenant through the practice of circumcision.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_obedience.htm">The Importance of Obedience</a></b><br>Circumcision was a sign of obedience to God's covenant. Today, believers are called to obey God's commands as a sign of their faith and commitment.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/covenant_relationship.htm">Covenant Relationship</a></b><br>The covenant with Abraham was a special relationship marked by a physical sign. Christians are in a new covenant through Christ, marked by faith and the Holy Spirit.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_significance.htm">Spiritual Significance</a></b><br>While circumcision was a physical act, it pointed to a deeper spiritual truth. Believers are called to have a "circumcised heart," living in purity and dedication to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/community_and_identity.htm">Community and Identity</a></b><br>Being "cut off" from the people for not being circumcised highlights the importance of community and identity in God's covenant. Believers are part of the body of Christ and should live in unity and faithfulness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/f/faith_and_works.htm">Faith and Works</a></b><br>The covenant required a physical act as a sign of faith. In the New Testament, faith is demonstrated through works, showing the reality of one's commitment to God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_genesis_17.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Genesis 17</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/bible's_view_on_excommunication.htm">What does the Bible say about excommunication?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_god_present_in_his_people's_praise.htm">Why did God seek to kill Moses in Exodus?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_do_men,_mankind,_and_brothers_differ.htm">How do 'men,' 'mankind,' and 'brothers' differ?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_'cut_off'_mean.htm">What does "cut off from his people" mean?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/genesis/17.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(14) <span class= "bld">Shall be cut off from his people.</span>--Jewish commentators generally consider that this penalty consisted in the offender being left to the direct interposition of God, who would punish him with childlessness and premature death (<span class= "ital">Talmud: Tract Yebam, </span>55). Most Christian commentators suppose that the offender was to be put to death by the civil magistrate; but this view is untenable. For a distinction is constantly drawn between the penalty of death, and the being "cut off from among the people," as, for instance, in Leviticus 20. So, too, the killing of a clean beast anywhere, except at the door of the tabernacle (<a href="/leviticus/17-4.htm" title="And brings it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed to that man; he has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:">Leviticus 17:4</a>), and the eating of blood (<a href="/leviticus/17-9.htm" title="And brings it not to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it to the LORD; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.">Leviticus 17:9</a>; <a href="/leviticus/17-14.htm" title="For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said to the children of Israel, You shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whoever eats it shall be cut off.">Leviticus 17:14</a>), are to be thus dealt with, while blasphemy and murder are to be punished with death (<a href="/context/leviticus/24-16.htm" title="And he that blasphemes the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemes the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.">Leviticus 24:16-17</a>). Now it became very common to kill clean beasts in all parts of the land, and the eating of blood, though regarded with horror (<a href="/context/1_samuel/14-32.htm" title="And the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.">1Samuel 14:32-34</a>), apparently had no penalty attached to it. The Jewish commentators seem to err only in being too special, and in defining the method in which God would punish. The punishment really seems to have been that of excommunication or outlawry, to which other penalties might have been attached by custom: but the main point was that one uncircumcised (as subsequently one who violated the principles of the Mosaic law) forfeited his privileges as a member of the Jewish nation, could claim no protection from the elders for life and property, and could not take his place at the gate of the city.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/genesis/17.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 14.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people.</span> <span class="greek">Ἐξολοθρευθήσεται ἐκ τοῦ γένους</span> <span class="greek">αὐτῆς</span> (LXX.), <span class="accented">i.e.</span> shall be destroyed from amongst his nation, from among his people (<a href="/leviticus/17-4.htm">Leviticus 17:4, 10</a>; <a href="/numbers/15-30.htm">Numbers 15:30</a>), from Israel (<a href="/exodus/12-15.htm">Exodus 12:15</a>; <a href="/numbers/19-13.htm">Numbers 19:13</a>), from the congregation of Israel (<a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Exodus 12:19</a>), by the infliction of death at the hands of the congregation, the civil magistrate, or of God (Abarbanel, Gesenius, Clericus, Michaelis, Rosenmüller, Keil, Wordsworth, Alford); or shall be excommunicated from the Church, and no longer reckoned among the people of God (Augustine, Vatablus, Piscator, Willet, Calvin, Knobel, Murphy, Kalisch, Inglis). That excision from one s people was in certain cases followed by the death penalty (<a href="/exodus/31-14.htm">Exodus 31:14</a>; <a href="/leviticus/18-29.htm">Leviticus 18:29</a>; <a href="/numbers/15-30.htm">Numbers 15:30</a>) does not prove that the capital infliction was an invariable accompaniment of such sentence (<span class="accented">vide</span> <a href="/exodus/12-19.htm">Exodus 12:19</a>; <a href="/leviticus/7-20.htm">Leviticus 7:20, 21</a>; <a href="/numbers/19-13.htm">Numbers 19:13</a>). Besides, to suppose that such was its meaning here necessitates the restriction of the punishment to adults, whereas with the alternative signification no such restriction requires to be imposed on the statute. The uncircumcised Hebrew, whether child or adult, forfeited his standing in the congregation, <span class="accented">i.e.</span> ceased to be a member of the Hebrew Church. <span class="cmt_word">He hath broken my covenant.</span> <p> CHAPTER 17:15-27 <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/genesis/17-14.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">But if any male</span><br /><span class="heb">זָכָ֗ר</span> <span class="translit">(zā·ḵār)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2145.htm">Strong's 2145: </a> </span><span class="str2">Remembered, a male</span><br /><br /><span class="word">is not</span><br /><span class="heb">לֹֽא־</span> <span class="translit">(lō-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb - Negative particle<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, no</span><br /><br /><span class="word">circumcised,</span><br /><span class="heb">יִמּוֹל֙</span> <span class="translit">(yim·mō·wl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4135.htm">Strong's 4135: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut short, curtail, to blunt, to destroy</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[he]</span><br /><span class="heb">הַהִ֖וא</span> <span class="translit">(ha·hi·w)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Pronoun - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> </span><span class="str2">He, self, the same, this, that, as, are</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will be cut off</span><br /><span class="heb">וְנִכְרְתָ֛ה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·niḵ·rə·ṯāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3772.htm">Strong's 3772: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from his people;</span><br /><span class="heb">מֵעַמֶּ֑יהָ</span> <span class="translit">(mê·‘am·me·hā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> </span><span class="str2">A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock</span><br /><br /><span class="word">he has broken</span><br /><span class="heb">הֵפַֽר׃</span> <span class="translit">(hê·p̄ar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6565.htm">Strong's 6565: </a> </span><span class="str2">To break up, to violate, frustrate</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My covenant.”</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּרִיתִ֖י</span> <span class="translit">(bə·rî·ṯî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1285.htm">Strong's 1285: </a> </span><span class="str2">A covenant</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/genesis/17-14.htm">Genesis 17:14 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/genesis/17-14.htm">OT Law: Genesis 17:14 The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised (Gen. 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