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Literal Standard Version

Leviticus 12:3

and in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin is circumcised;

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.
Easy-to-Read Version
The baby boy must be circumcised on the eighth day.
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

1And YHWH speaks to Moses, saying, 2"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, A woman when she gives seed, and has borne a male, then she has been unclean [for] seven days; she is unclean according to the days of separation for her sickness; 3and in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin is circumcised;4and she abides in the blood of her cleansing [for] thirty-three days; she does not come against any holy thing, and she does not go into the sanctuary, until the fullness of the days of her cleansing. 5And if she bears a female, then she has been unclean [for] two weeks, as in her separation; and she abides by the blood of her cleansing [for] sixty-six days.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 18:18
and Abraham certainly becomes a great and mighty nation, and blessed in him have been all nations of the earth?
Genesis 27:29
peoples serve you, and nations bow themselves to you, be mighty over your brothers, and the sons of your mother bow themselves to you; those who curse you [are] cursed, and those who bless you [are] blessed."
Genesis 28:14
and your seed has been as the dust of the land, and you have broken forth westward, and eastward, and northward, and southward, and all families of the ground have been blessed in you and in your seed.
Genesis 30:27
And Laban says to him, "Now if I have found grace in your eyes—I have observed diligently that YHWH blesses me for your sake."
Genesis 30:30
for [it is] little which you have had at my appearance, and it breaks forth into a multitude, and YHWH blesses you at my coming; and now, when do I make, I also, for my own house?"
Genesis 39:5
And it comes to pass from the time that he has appointed him over his house, and over all that he has, that YHWH blesses the house of the Egyptian for Joseph's sake, and the blessing of YHWH is on all that he has, in the house, and in the field;
Exodus 23:22
for if you listen diligently to His voice, and have done all that which I speak, then I have been at enmity with your enemies, and have distressed those distressing you.
Numbers 24:9
He has bent, he has lain down as a lion, || And as a lioness, who raises him up? He who is blessing you [is] blessed, || And he who is cursing you [is] cursed."
Psalms 72:17
His Name is for all time, || Before the sun is His Name continued, || And they bless themselves in Him, || All nations pronounce Him blessed.
Matthew 25:40
And the King answering, will say to them, Truly I say to you, inasmuch as you did [it] to one of these My brothers—the least—you did [it] to 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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