Genesis 17:10

Genesis 17:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
• New International Version (NIV)This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
• English Standard Version (ESV)This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised.
• New King James Version (NKJV)This is My covenant which you shall keep, between Me and you and your descendants after you: Every male child among you shall be circumcised;

Context of Genesis 17:10

8And I give to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be a God to them. 9And God said to Abraham, And [as for] thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations. This is my covenant which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee — that every male among you be circumcised. 11And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and [that] shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. 12And at eight days old shall every male in your generations be circumcised among you — he who is born in the house, and he who is bought with money, any stranger who is not of thy seed.

Genesis 17:10 word by word

זֹ֣את בְּרִיתִ֞י אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּשְׁמְר֗וּ בֵּינִי֙ וּבֵ֣ינֵיכֶ֔ם וּבֵ֥ין זַרְעֲךָ֖ אַחֲרֶ֑יךָ הִמּ֥וֹל לָכֶ֖ם כָּל־זָכָֽר׃Read the interlinear

• covenantבְּרִיתberîyth · covenantH1285
• keepשָׁמַרshâmar · to keep: obeyH8104
• seedזֶ֫רַעzera‛ · seedH2233
• maleזָכָרzâkâr · maleH2145
• circumcisedמוּלmûl · to circumciseH4135

Cross-references for Genesis 17:10

• Genesis 17:11And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and [that] shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you.
• Genesis 34:15But only in this will we consent to you, if ye will be as we, that every male of you be circumcised;
• Exodus 4:25Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me!
• Exodus 12:48And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee, and would hold the passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and hold it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
• Deuteronomy 10:16Circumcise then the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.
• Deuteronomy 30:6And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
• Joshua 5:2At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make thee stone-knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
• Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves for Jehovah, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my fury come forth like fire and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
• Jeremiah 9:25Behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, when I will visit all [them that are] circumcised with the uncircumcised;
• Acts 7:8And he gave to him [the] covenant of circumcision; and thus he begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac Jacob, and Jacob the twelve patriarchs.
• Romans 2:28For he is not a Jew who [is] one outwardly, neither that circumcision which is outward in flesh;
• Romans 3:1What then [is] the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of circumcision?
• Romans 4:9[Does] this blessedness then [rest] on the circumcision, or also on the uncircumcision? For we say that faith has been reckoned to Abraham as righteousness.
• 1 Corinthians 7:18Has any one been called circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised: has any one been called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.
• Galatians 3:28There is no Jew nor Greek; there is no bondman nor freeman; there is no male and female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus:
• Galatians 5:3And I witness again to every man [who is] circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law.

Commentaries on Genesis 17:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Every man - child - shall be circumcised - Those who wish to invalidate the evidence of the Divine origin of the Mosaic law, roundly assert that the Israelites received the rite of circumcision from the Egyptians. Their apostle in this business is Herodotus, who, lib. ii., p. 116, Edit. Steph. 1592, says: "The Colchians, Egyptians, and Ethiopians, are the only nations in the world who have used circumcision ' , from the remotest period; and the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1-27Verses 1-27 - The Sealing of the Covenant 1. שׁדי shaday Shaddai, “Irresistible, able to destroy, and by inference to make, Almighty.” שׁדד shādad “be strong, destroy.” This name is found six times in Genesis, and thirty-one times in Job. 5. אברהם 'abrâhām Abraham, from אברם 'abrām “high-father,” and הם hām the radical part of המין hāmôn a “multitude,” is obtained by a euphonic abbreviation אברהם 'abrâhām “father of a multitude.” The root רהם rhm…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-14Verses 7-14 The covenant of grace is from everlasting in the counsels of it, and to everlasting in the consequences of it. The token of the covenant was circumcision. It is here said to be the covenant which Abraham and his seed must keep. Those who will have the Lord to be to them a God, must resolve to be to him a people. Not only Abraham and Isaac, and his posterity by Isaac, were to be circumcised, but also Ishmael and the bond-servants. It sealed not…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-14God gave circumcision as a confirming sign that reminded all households of loyalty to the covenant.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. Every man child among you shall be circumcised--This was the sign in the Old Testament Church as baptism is in the New, and hence the covenant is called "covenant of circumcision" (Ac 7:8; Ro 4:11). The terms of the covenant were these: on the one hand Abraham and his seed were to observe the right of circumcision; and on the other, God promised, in the event of such observance, to give them Canaan for a perpetual possession, to be a God to him and…Read the comment

Topics related to Genesis 17:10

• Abraham
• Children
• Circumcision
• Covenant

In the dictionaries

• Man-Child
• Abraham
• Baptism, Christian
• Birth
• Circumcision
• Covenant
• Establish
• Everlasting
• Works, Covenant of
• Agrarian Laws

Commentaries on Genesis 17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings