Leviticus 12:3
New International Version
On the eighth day the boy is to be circumcised.

New Living Translation
On the eighth day the boy’s foreskin must be circumcised.

English Standard Version
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Berean Standard Bible
And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.

King James Bible
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

New King James Version
And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

New American Standard Bible
Then on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

NASB 1995
‘On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

NASB 1977
‘And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Amplified Bible
On the eighth day the flesh of the male child’s foreskin shall be circumcised.

Christian Standard Bible
The flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised on the eighth day.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised on the eighth day.

American Standard Version
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the eighth day they shall circumcise the flesh of his foreskin.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And on the eighth day she shall circumcise the flesh of his foreskin.

Contemporary English Version
Her son must be circumcised on the eighth day,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And on the eighth day the infant shall be circumcised:

English Revised Version
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The boy must be circumcised when he is eight days old.

Good News Translation
On the eighth day, the child shall be circumcised.

International Standard Version
On the eighth day, the flesh of the baby's foreskin is to be circumcised.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Literal Standard Version
and in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin is circumcised;

Majority Standard Bible
And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised.

New American Bible
On the eighth day, the flesh of the boy’s foreskin shall be circumcised,

NET Bible
On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin must be circumcised.

New Revised Standard Version
On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

New Heart English Bible
In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Webster's Bible Translation
And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

World English Bible
In the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Young's Literal Translation
and in the eighth day is the flesh of his foreskin circumcised;

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Context
Purification after Childbirth
2“Say to the Israelites, ‘A woman who becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son will be unclean for seven days, as she is during the days of her menstruation. 3And on the eighth day the flesh of the boy’s foreskin is to be circumcised. 4The woman shall continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch anything sacred or go into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are complete.…

Cross References
Luke 1:59
On the eighth day, when they came to circumcise the child, they were going to name him after his father Zechariah.

Luke 2:21
When the eight days until His circumcision had passed, He was named Jesus, the name the angel had given Him before He had been conceived.

John 7:22
But because Moses gave you circumcision, you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath (not that it is from Moses, but from the patriarchs.)

Acts 15:1
Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

Genesis 17:12
Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner--even those who are not your offspring.

Exodus 22:30
You shall do likewise with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but on the eighth day you are to give them to Me.

Leviticus 12:4
The woman shall continue in purification from her bleeding for thirty-three days. She must not touch anything sacred or go into the sanctuary until the days of her purification are complete.


Treasury of Scripture

And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Genesis 17:11,12
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you…

Deuteronomy 30:6
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Luke 1:59
And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

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(3) And in the eighth day.--When the seven days had passed by during which the mother remained un clean, the boy is to be circumcised, since on the eighth day the first period of her extreme state of impurity ceases, and she no more imparts defilement to whomsoever or to whatsoever she touches. For the rite of circumcision, see Genesis 17:10; Genesis 17:13.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And on the eighth
הַשְּׁמִינִ֑י (haš·šə·mî·nî)
Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's 8066: Eighth (an ordinal number)

day
וּבַיּ֖וֹם (ū·ḇay·yō·wm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

the flesh
בְּשַׂ֥ר (bə·śar)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

of [the boy’s] foreskin
עָרְלָתֽוֹ׃ (‘ā·rə·lā·ṯōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6190: The prepuce

is to be circumcised.
יִמּ֖וֹל (yim·mō·wl)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4135: To cut short, curtail, to blunt, to destroy


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