Reading: Genesis 17: 1-14
Acts 7:
8 Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision
The Hebrew word mul means to circumcise or to cut off (the foreskin of the male organ). In this scene, the Lord (Adoney) who has already initiated, cut, a covenant earlier with Abram whom He newly rebranded as Abraham is now giving circumcision as a sign of His covenant with him, his friend. There is much emphasis on the words covenant and circumcision so much so that if one is interchanged for the other, the meaning will still be the same. The word covenant appears eleven times in the passage of Genesis chapter seventeen. It’s almost synonymous with the word circumcision in each case.