²² Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

³ And on the eighth day let him be given circumcision.

¹⁰ And this is the agreement which you are to keep with me, you and your seed after you: every male among you is to undergo circumcision.

¹¹ In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.

¹² Every male among you, from one generation to another, is to undergo circumcision when he is eight days old, with every servant whose birth takes place in your house, or for whom you gave money to someone of another country, and not of your seed.

¹³ He who comes to birth in your house and he who is made yours for a price, all are to undergo circumcision; so that my agreement may be marked in your flesh, an agreement for all time.

¹⁴ And any male who does not undergo circumcision will be cut off from his people: my agreement has been broken by him.

⁹ Is this blessing, then, for the circumcision only, or in the same way for those who have not circumcision? for we say that the faith of Abraham was put to his account as righteousness.

¹⁰ How, then, was it judged? when he had circumcision, or when he had it not? Not when he had it, but when he did not have it:

¹¹ And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;

¹⁷ Now this I say: The law, which came four hundred and thirty years after, does not put an end to the agreement made before by God, so as to make the undertaking without effect.