Cross references
Genesis 17:12
Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.
Genesis 17:12 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Leviticus 12:3 (9 votes) and Luke 2:21 (7 votes). 19 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Genesis 14 to Philippians 3.
Which verses does Genesis 17:12 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Leviticus 12:39 votes
And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.
- Luke 2:217 votes
When the eight days before His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He was conceived.
- Exodus 12:48–495 votes
If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it. The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
- Luke 1:595 votes
On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.
- Philippians 3:55 votes
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
- Genesis 17:233 votes
On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.
- Genesis 21:43 votes
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
- John 7:22–233 votes
But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.) If a boy can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses will not be broken, why are you angry with Me for making the whole man well on the Sabbath?
- Acts 7:83 votes
Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and Abraham became the father of Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day. And Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.
- Romans 2:283 votes
A man is not a Jew because he is one outwardly, nor is circumcision only outward and physical.
Which verses point to Genesis 17:12?
The 10 strongest of 19.