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Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Leviticus 12:3

The baby boy must be circumcised on the eighth day.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Circumcision;   Defilement;   Sanitation;   The Topic Concordance - Uncleanness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Circumcision;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;   Year;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ;   Woman;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Birth;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Unclean and Clean;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Birth;   Clean, Cleanness;   Leprosy;   Leviticus;   Woman;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Circumcision;   Clean and Unclean;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Infancy;   Joseph (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Circumcision;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Children;   Circumcision;   Uncleanness;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Year;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Defile;   Foreskin;   Genesis;   Joseph, Husband of Mary;   Law in the New Testament;   Leviticus;   Number;   Sanctuary;   Uncleanness;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Birth;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Circumcision;   Commandments, the 613;   Jubilees, Book of;   Medicine;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
King James Version
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Lexham English Bible
And on the eighth day his foreskin's flesh shall be circumcised.
New Century Version
On the eighth day the boy must be circumcised.
New English Translation
On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.
Amplified Bible
'On the eighth day the flesh of the male child's foreskin shall be circumcised.
New American Standard Bible
'Then on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Geneva Bible (1587)
(And in the eight day, the foreskin of the childes flesh shalbe circumcised)
Legacy Standard Bible
Now on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Contemporary English Version
Her son must be circumcised on the eighth day,
Complete Jewish Bible
On the eighth day, the baby's foreskin is to be circumcised.
Darby Translation
And on the eighth day shall the flesh of his foreskin be circumcised.
English Standard Version
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
George Lamsa Translation
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Good News Translation
On the eighth day, the child shall be circumcised.
Christian Standard Bible®
The flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised on the eighth day.
Literal Translation
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and in ye eight daye shal ye flesh of his foreskynne be cut awaie.
American Standard Version
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Bible in Basic English
And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And in the eyght day, the fleshe of the childes foreskinne shalbe cut away.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
King James Version (1611)
And in the eight day, the flesh of his foreskinne shall be circumcised.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And on the eighth day she shall circumcise the flesh of his foreskin.
English Revised Version
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Berean Standard Bible
And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy's foreskin is to be circumcised.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and the yong child schal be circumsidid in the eiytithe dai.
Young's Literal Translation
and in the eighth day is the flesh of his foreskin circumcised;
Update Bible Version
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
Webster's Bible Translation
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
World English Bible
In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
New King James Version
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
New Living Translation
On the eighth day the boy's foreskin must be circumcised.
New Life Bible
On the eighth day the child is to go through the religious act of becoming a Jew.
New Revised Standard
On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, on the eighth day, shall the flesh of his foreskin be circumcised.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And on the eighth day the infant shall be circumcised:
Revised Standard Version
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord said to Moses, 2 "Tell the Israelites: "When a woman gives birth, she will be unclean, just as she is during her monthly time of bleeding. If the baby is a boy, the mother will be unclean for seven days. 3 The baby boy must be circumcised on the eighth day. 4 Because of the blood from childbirth, another 33 days must pass before she can touch anything that is holy. She must not enter the Holy Place until the time of her purification is finished. 5 But if she gives birth to a girl, the mother will be unclean for 14 days, just as she is during her monthly time of bleeding. Because of the blood from childbirth, another 66 days must pass before she becomes clean.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 18:18
Abraham will become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on earth will be blessed because of him.
Genesis 27:29
May the nations serve you and many people bow down to you. You will rule over your brothers. Your mother's sons will bow down to you and obey you. Whoever curses you will be cursed. Whoever blesses you will be blessed."
Genesis 28:14
You will have as many descendants as there are particles of dust on the earth. They will spread east and west, north and south. All the families on earth will be blessed because of you and your descendants.
Genesis 30:27
Laban said to him, "Please, let me say something. I know that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
Genesis 30:30
When I came, you had little. Now you have much, much more. Every time I did something for you, the Lord blessed you. Now it is time for me to work for myself—it is time to do things for my family."
Genesis 39:5
After Joseph was made the ruler over the house, the Lord blessed the house and everything that Potiphar owned. The Lord also blessed everything that grew in Potiphar's fields. The Lord did this because of Joseph.
Exodus 23:22
If you listen to what he says and do everything I tell you, then I will be an enemy to all of your enemies. I will be against everyone who is against you.
Numbers 24:9
Israel is like a lion, curled up and lying down. Yes, they are like a young lion, and no one wants to wake him! Anyone who blesses you will be blessed. And anyone who curses you will have great troubles."
Psalms 72:17
May the king be famous forever. May people remember his name as long as the sun shines. May all nations be blessed through him, and may they all bless him.
Matthew 25:40
"Then the king will answer, ‘The truth is, anything you did for any of my people here, you also did for me.'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised. Or the foreskin of his flesh, that is, of the man child born according to the law, Genesis 17:12 and this seems to furnish out a reason why a male child was not circumcised before the eighth day, and why it was then, because before that its mother was in her separation and uncleanness, and then was freed from it; and so the Targum of Jonathan. The circumcision of a male child on the eighth day was religiously observed, and even was not omitted on account of the sabbath, when the eighth day happened to be on that,

Genesis 17:12- : Genesis 17:12- :. It is an observation of Aben Ezra on this place, that the wise men say "in the day", and not in the night, lo, he that is born half an hour before the setting of the sun is circumcised after six days and a half, for the day of the law is not from time to time.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On circumcision, see Genesis 17:5 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Leviticus 12:3. And in the eighth day — Before this time the child could scarcely be considered as having strength sufficient to bear the operation; after this time it was not necessary to delay it, as the child was not considered to be in covenant with God, and consequently not under the especial protection of the Divine providence and grace, till this rite had been performed. On circumcision Genesis 17:10; Genesis 17:10. Circumcision was to every man a constant, evident sign of the covenant into which he had entered with God, and of the moral obligations under which he was thereby laid. It was also a means of purity, and was especially necessary among a people naturally incontinent, and in a climate not peculiarly favourable to chastity. This is a light in which this subject should ever be viewed, and in which we see the reasonableness, propriety, expediency, and moral tendency of the ceremony.


 
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