Discovery BoxGenesis 17:10-12 
Context17:10 This is my requirement that you and your descendants after you must keep: 1 Every male among you must be circumcised. 2 17:11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder 3 of the covenant between me and you. 17:12 Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old 4 must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants.
1 tn Heb “This is my covenant that you must keep between me and you and your descendants after you.”
2 sn For a discussion of male circumcision as the sign of the covenant in this passage see M. V. Fox, “The Sign of the Covenant: Circumcision in the Light of the Priestly ‘ot Etiologies,” RB 81 (1974): 557-96.
3 tn Or “sign.”
4 tn Heb “the son of eight days.”
