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- Genesis
- Chapter 21
- Verse 4
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
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Gill's Exposition
And Abraham was an hundred years old when son Isaac was born unto him. So that this was years after his departure from Haran, and coming into the land of Canaan, for then he was seventy five years of…
- The Birth of Isaac 7. מלל mı̂lēl “speak,” an ancient and therefore solemn and poetical word. 14. חמת chêmet “bottle,” akin to חמה chāmâh, “surround, enclose,” and הוּם chûm “black. באר שׁבע…
Adam Clarke
And Abraham circumcised his son - See note on Gen 17:10, etc.
Long-looked-for comes at last. The vision concerning the promised seed is for an appointed time, and now, at the end, it speaks, and does not lie; few under the Old Testament were brought into the…
Cambridge Bible
circumcised Abraham fulfilled the command of Gen 17:10 (P). That Isaac, the son of the promise, was circumcised on the 8th day is particularly mentioned by St Stephen, Act 7:8.
The mention of…
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