Difference between revisions of "Circumcision"

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== American Tract Society Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_15750" /> ==
        <p> A cutting around, because in this rite the foreskin was cut away. God commanded [[Abraham]] to use circumcision, as a sign of his covenant; and in obedience to this order, the patriarch, at ninety-nine years of age, was circumcised,