Covenant of Circumcision

The commandment to remove the foreskin from the male organ of an infant eight days old or of one who converts.

("Was it for you to remember the covenant of circumcision? He said to him (Jeremiah 9:25) 'And they shall pass over from you with a holy flesh.' He said to him: 'Perhaps if you had been lenient to them they would return in repentance?'" - Menachot 53b. And also: "And you shall keep My covenant—Rabbi Eliezer says, this is the Sabbath covenant, and Rabbi Akiva says, this is the covenant of circumcision and idolatry." - Mechilta of Rabbi Ishmael, Yitro, Tractate of the Month, Parashah 2. And also: "From infancy until the completion, from the day he enters the covenant of circumcision until his death / a covenant is cut with the Hebrew / and a war is upon him to cut off the foreigner." - Yaron London / Eliezer ben Yehuda)

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