“When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.”
Genesis 21:4
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Abraham obeyed when Isaac was born
A year after God said this, Sarah had a son at the time He set. Abraham named the child Isaac, as God had told him here, and on the eighth day he circumcised him, "as God had commanded him" (Genesis 21:4).
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God had fixed the eighth day in Genesis 17, a year before Isaac was born. In Egypt circumcision was usually done to boys nearing manhood, a rite for what a youth had become. God put His covenant sign on a baby of eight days who had done nothing yet, marked by God's choosing alone.
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