And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

To Abraham for a possession in the presence of the children of Heth, before all that went in at the gate of his city.

And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskins in the same day, as God had said unto him.

Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.

Wash you, make yourself clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and tear you.

For he is not a Jew, who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

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

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.