²² Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision^(A) (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs),^(B) you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.

³ On the eighth day^(A) the boy is to be circumcised.^(B)

¹⁰ This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every male among you shall be circumcised.^{(A) 11} You are to undergo circumcision,^(B) and it will be the sign of the covenant^(C) between me and you. ¹² For the generations to come^(D) every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised,^(E) including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring. ¹³ Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised.^(F) My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant.^{(G) 14} Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised^(H) in the flesh, will be cut off from his people;^(I) he has broken my covenant.^(J)”

⁹ Is this blessedness only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised?^(A) We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.^{(B) 10} Under what circumstances was it credited? Was it after he was circumcised, or before? It was not after, but before! ¹¹ And he received circumcision as a sign, a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised.^(C) So then, he is the father^(D) of all who believe^(E) but have not been circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.

¹⁷ What I mean is this: The law, introduced 430 years^(A) later, does not set aside the covenant previously established by God and thus do away with the promise.