الختان في الكتاب المقدس: ماذا يعني؟ علامة عهد الله

In the Bible, circumcision is the sign of God’s covenant with Abraham and his descendants. God told Abraham to circumcise every male in his household, boys on their eighth day, and called it “a token of the covenant betwixt me and you” (Genesis 17:11). The prophets asked for a circumcised heart; the apostles did not require circumcision of Gentile Christians. Circumcision is the cutting away of the foreskin, the loose skin that covers the end of the penis. In Scripture…