² At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

²⁵ Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cutting off the skin of her son's private parts, and touching his feet with it, she said, Truly you are a husband of blood to me.

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.

¹⁶ Let your circumcision be of the heart, and put away your pride.

⁶ And the Lord your God will give to you and to your seed a circumcision of the heart, so that, loving him with all your heart and all your soul, you may have life.

²⁹ But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.

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;

¹¹ In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;