Genesis 17:26
New International Version
Abraham and his son Ishmael were both circumcised on that very day.

New Living Translation
Both Abraham and his son, Ishmael, were circumcised on that same day,

English Standard Version
That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

Berean Standard Bible
Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.

King James Bible
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

New King James Version
That very same day Abraham was circumcised, and his son Ishmael;

New American Standard Bible
On this very same day Abraham was circumcised, as well as his son Ishmael.

NASB 1995
In the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

NASB 1977
In the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

Legacy Standard Bible
In the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

Amplified Bible
On the very same day Abraham was circumcised, as well as Ishmael his son.

Christian Standard Bible
On that very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
On that same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

American Standard Version
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And all the men in his house, born in his house and purchased with his money, and also he circumcised with him some sons of foreigners.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And at the period of that day, Abraam was circumcised, and Ismael his son,

Douay-Rheims Bible
The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.

English Revised Version
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
That same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised.

Good News Translation
They were both circumcised on the same day,

International Standard Version
Both Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on that very day.

JPS Tanakh 1917
In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

Literal Standard Version
in this very same day Abraham has been circumcised, and his son Ishmael;

Majority Standard Bible
Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day.

New American Bible
Thus, on that same day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised;

NET Bible
Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the very same day.

New Revised Standard Version
That very day Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised;

New Heart English Bible
In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

Webster's Bible Translation
In the same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

World English Bible
In the same day both Abraham and Ishmael, his son, were circumcised.

Young's Literal Translation
in this self-same day hath Abraham been circumcised, and Ishmael his son;

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Context
The Covenant of Circumcision
25and his son Ishmael was thirteen; 26Abraham and his son Ishmael were circumcised on the same day. 27And all the men of Abraham’s household—both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners—were circumcised with him.…

Cross References
Genesis 17:25
and his son Ishmael was thirteen;

Genesis 17:27
And all the men of Abraham's household--both servants born in his household and those purchased from foreigners--were circumcised with him.


Treasury of Scripture

In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

Genesis 12:4
So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Genesis 22:3,4
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him…

Psalm 119:60
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.

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Genesis 17
1. God renews the covenant with Abram,
5. and changes his name to Abraham, in token of a greater blessing.
9. Circumcision is instituted.
15. Sarai's name is changed to Sarah, and she is blessed.
17. Isaac is promised, and the time of his birth fixed.
23. Abraham and Ishmael are circumcised.














(26) In the selfsame day.--Heb., In the bone of this day, and so in Genesis 17:23 (see Genesis 2:23). In the circumcising of the household together with Abraham and his son we see that no impassable interval separated the Hebrew slave from his master, but that he was to share all the national and religious privileges of the freeman.

Verses 26, 27. - In the self-same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. And all the men of his house, born in the house, and bought with money of the stranger, wore circumcised with him. The usual charges of needless repetition which are preferred against the closing verses of this chapter may be disposed of by observing that Ver. 23 intimates that the sacrament of circumcision was administered to the patriarch and his household on the very day that God had enjoined it, i.e. without delay; that Vers. 24, 25 declare the respective ages of Abraham and Ishmael when they received the Divinely-appointed rite; and that Vers. 26, 27 state the fact that the entire household of the patriarch was circumcised simultaneously with himself. THE ORIGIN OF CIRCUMCISION. The determination of this question does not appear of paramount importance, yet the ascertained results may be briefly indicated.

(1) According to Herodotus (2. 104) circumcision was observed as a custom of primitive antiquity among the Colchiaus, Ethiopians, and Egyptians, by the last of whom it was communicated to the Syrians of Palestine and the Phoenicians. It is, however, uncertain Whether among the Egyptians the practice was universal, as Philo and Herodotus assert, or limited to the priesthood, as Origen believed; and equally doubtful whether the Egyptians themselves may not have adopted it from the Hebrews in the time of Joseph, instead of from the Ethiopians, as appears to be the judgment of Kalisch. Against the idea that circumcision was a national and universal observance among the Egyptians in the time of Abraham, it has been urged that the male servants of the patriarch, some of whom were Egyptians (Genesis 12:16), were not circumcised till Abraham was commanded to perform the rite; that Ishmael, the son of an Egyptian mother, remained uncircumcised till the same time; and that the daughter of Pharaoh recognized Moses as a Hebrew child, which, it is supposed, she could not have done had circumcision been generally practiced among her own people. On the other hand, it is contended that the absence of details as to how the rite should be performed seems to imply that already circumcision was familiar to Abraham; and by some modern Egyptologists it is asserted that an examination of ancient mummies and sculptures, in which circumcision is a distinctive mark between the Egyptians and their enemies, shows that the ceremony must have been in use not among the priests only, but throughout the nation generally so early as the time of the fourth dynasty, i.e. , or considerably earlier than the time of Abraham. Still

(2) though it should be held as indubitably established that circumcision was a prevalent custom among the Egyptians in the time of Abraham, it would not follow that the Hebrews adopted it from them. On the contrary, the Biblical narrative expressly mentions that its observance by the patriarch and- his household was due to a Divine command, and was connected with a religious significance which was altogether foreign to the Egyptians and others by whom that rite was practiced. Among the reasons for its adoption by the heathen nations of antiquity have been assigned, among the Ethiopians, a prophylactic design to ward off certain painful, and often incurable, disorders; among the Egyptians, a regard to cleanliness; and perhaps among the priesthood of the latter country a semi-religious idea (the deification of the generative powers) was associated with a practice which was commonly regarded as enhancing productivity; but the import of the ceremony as enjoined upon the father of the faithful was as widely as possible removed from every one of these ideas, being connected with spiritual conceptions of which the heathen world was entirely ignorant. That a heathen custom should have been adopted by Jehovah and elevated to the rank and connected with the spiritual significance of a religious sign will not occur as a difficulty to those who remember that the rainbow, a well-known natural phenomenon, was selected as the sign for Noah's covenant, and that Christian baptism is a similar transformation of a previously existing ceremony by which Gentile proselytes were admitted to the Hebrew Church.

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Hebrew
Abraham
אַבְרָהָ֑ם (’aḇ·rā·hām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 85: Abraham -- 'exalted father', the father of the Jewish nation

and his son
בְּנֽוֹ׃ (bə·nōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1121: A son

Ishmael
וְיִשְׁמָעֵ֖אל (wə·yiš·mā·‘êl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3458: Ishmael -- 'God hears', the name of several Israelites

were circumcised
נִמּ֖וֹל (nim·mō·wl)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4135: To cut short, curtail, to blunt, to destroy

on the
הַזֶּ֔ה (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

same
בְּעֶ֙צֶם֙ (bə·‘e·ṣem)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 6106: A bone, the body, the substance, selfsame

day.
הַיּ֣וֹם (hay·yō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day


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