“You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.”
Genesis 17:11
BSBGo deeper on this verse (3)
- Abram Becomes Abraham: A New Name at Ninety-Nine (Genesis 17)
- El Shaddai and the Letter God Hid in a New Name (Genesis 17)
Connection with the defiling of Dinah
God told Abraham, "You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you" (Genesis 17:11). Three generations later, outside the city of Shechem, Abraham's great-grandsons took that sign and offered it to a city as bait.
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