He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.
⛓ Read Genesis 17 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion3
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child' enacts the Abrahamic covenant requirement, 'He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised' (Genesis 17:12). The precise eighth-day specification gives high volume and roots John in covenant fidelity.
High confidenceJesus is circumcised 'when eight days were fulfilled,' the precise Abrahamic stipulation that every male be circumcised on the eighth day as the sign of the covenant. Volume is high (the eighth-day specification) and coherence exact: Jesus is incorporated into the covenant of Abraham.
High confidence'Circumcised the eighth day' directly invokes the Abrahamic covenant statute that every male be circumcised at eight days old. Paul cites his impeccable conformity to this Torah marker as the leading item of fleshly 'confidence' he renounces. High volume and verbal precision.
High confidence