Acts 7:8

Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, “This time I will praise Yahweh.” Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

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

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.

By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

God said, “This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

But I will establish my covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be listed according to the birthright.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.

Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.

He said to Abram, “Know for sure that your offspring will live as foreigners in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them. They will afflict them four hundred years.

I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are traveling, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession. I will be their God.”

This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

He said, “Your name will no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

David slept with his fathers, and was buried in David’s city.

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

When eight days were fulfilled for the circumcision of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb.

The man called his wife Eve because she would be the mother of all the living.

Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.

When Abram heard that his relative was taken captive, he led out his three hundred eighteen trained men, born in his house, and pursued as far as Dan.

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the plunder.”

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

“ ‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife. It is your father’s nakedness.

David came to his house at Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women his concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in custody, and provided them with sustenance, but didn’t go in to them. So they were shut up to the day of their death, living in widowhood.

After him, Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs to the place opposite the tombs of David, and to the pool that was made, and to the house of the mighty men.

“A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”

Behold, Elizabeth your relative also has conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren.

the oath which he swore to Abraham our father,

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”

Now I mean this, that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” and, “I follow Christ.”

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

Remember this: he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.

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 offspring.

Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two servants, and his eleven sons, and crossed over the ford of the Jabbok.

and said to them, “We can’t do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

The sons of Zilpah (Leah’s servant): Gad and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan Aram.

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.’

These are the sons of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to Rachel, his daughter, and these she bore to Jacob: all the souls were seven.

The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

“These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have crossed over the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac,

Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child; and they would have called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh;

How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

Brothers, speaking of human terms, though it is only a man’s covenant, yet when it has been confirmed, no one makes it void or adds to it.

Now I say this: A covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ, the law, which came four hundred thirty years after, does not annul, so as to make the promise of no effect.

Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best plunder.