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Example sentences for "circumcised"

Lexicographically close words:
circumambulate; circumambulated; circumambulating; circumambulation; circumcise; circumcising; circumcision; circumference; circumferences; circumferential
  1. Esau also was a professor; he was born unto Isaac, and circumcised according to the custom.

  2. 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 seed.

  3. The uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

  4. Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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

  6. All the men of his house, those born in the house, and those bought with money of a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

  7. You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin.

  8. Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

  9. The children of these succeeded in the place of their fathers, and were circumcised by Josue: for they were uncircumcised even as they were born, and no one had circumcised them in the way.

  10. He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.

  11. Not till another man had knocked repeatedly on the ground with the stalk of a palm-leaf, crying, "O circumcised ones, open your eyes!

  12. When they are judged to be ready to undergo the rite, they are led forth and circumcised in front of the house amid a prodigious uproar made by the swinging of bull-roarers.

  13. Seclusion and return of the newly circumcised lads.

  14. After their wounds are healed the circumcised lads have still to remain in seclusion for three or four months.

  15. Well, on the fifth day after a chief's death a hole used to be dug under the floor of a temple and one of the newly circumcised lads was secreted in it.

  16. Then a man passed behind them, touching each of them in the hams with the handle of an axe and saying, "O circumcised one, sit down.

  17. The most important of its ceremonies is that of the initiation of the young men, who on this occasion are circumcised before they are recognised as full-grown men and members of the secret society.

  18. A curious sacrifice offered in honour of a dead chief consisted in the foreskins of all the boys who had arrived at a suitable age; the lads were circumcised on purpose to furnish them.

  19. Next morning the circumcised lads were bathed in the sea and painted red instead of white.

  20. Bear this silver to Eliezer the Jew, in the Ghetto at Venice, to the end the Circumcised may never say you are a bad surety.

  21. The thought of breaking his promise and exposing his pledge to the reproaches of the Circumcised was intolerable to him.

  22. Who knows," he kept saying to himself, "if I may not get from one of the Circumcised what the Christians have denied me?

  23. They are all circumcised and follow the Jewish law, and when any Mahometan falls into their hands they flea him alive.

  24. It is, he claims, really Shishak's invasion of Jerusalem which the Greek historian narrates, as is proved by the fact that he speaks of circumcised Syrians, who can be no other than Jews.

  25. Authority is brought forward to show that Pythagoras had connection with the Hebrews, and Herodotus, it is argued, referred to the Jews as circumcised Syrians.

  26. Now the women that circumcised their children were slain according to the commandment of king Antiochus, 1:64.

  27. And they hanged the children about their neck in all their houses: and those that had circumcised them, they put to death.

  28. And they all agreed, and circumcised all the males.

  29. And so he begot Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day: and Isaac begot Jacob: and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs.

  30. The selfsame day was Abraham circumcised and Ismael his son.

  31. And they circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised: and they did valiantly.

  32. For two women were accused to have circumcised their children: whom, when they had openly led about through the city, with the infants hanging at their breasts, they threw down headlong from the walls.

  33. Abraham was ninety and nine years old, when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.

  34. But there arose of the sect of the Pharisees some that believed, saying: They must be circumcised and be commanded to observe the law of Moses.

  35. Being circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews.

  36. And he circumcised him the eighth day, as God had commanded him, 21:5.

  37. And all the men of his house, as well they that were born in his house, as the bought servants and strangers, were circumcised with him.

  38. For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

  39. In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by hand in despoiling of the body of the flesh: but in the circumcision of Christ.

  40. Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

  41. This was an angel representing the Lord, who treated Moses in this manner, for having neglected the circumcision of his younger son; which his wife understanding, circumcised her child upon the spot, upon which the angel let Moses go.

  42. Were they seized and circumcised by main strength?

  43. In the Septuagint, the passage is thus rendered, "Many of the heathen were circumcised and became Jews.

  44. So in the end they circumcised him and made him Turk.

  45. The Gentile Christians, it will be remembered, had been released from the obligation of being circumcised and of undertaking to keep the Mosaic Law.

  46. Certainly it was not merely because the Judaizing demand that Gentile Christians should be circumcised and keep the Law would interfere in a practical way with the Gentile mission.

  47. The very life of the Gentile mission at Antioch was threatened by the Judaizers who came down from Jerusalem and said, "Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

  48. But the Judaizers continued to disturb the peace of the Church, and even demanded, as a thing absolutely necessary to salvation, that the Gentile Christians should be circumcised and should keep the Law of Moses.

  49. Were the new converts to be received as disciples of Jesus without being circumcised and thus without becoming members of the covenant people of God?

  50. It must be mentioned that the Essenes were circumcised as well as the other Jews.

  51. These books are only to be delivered to "one who is good and religious, and who wishes to teach, and who is circumcised and faithful.

  52. All the males, too, were circumcised by God's orders.

  53. From the text it seems that Joshua circumcised all the males himself.

  54. Every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

  55. Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.

  56. Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

  57. This is really the only disadvantage that can be charged against circumcision, as in a strictly circumcised community they would be debarred from this great advantage.

  58. No circumcised people have ever inhabited northern regions, and the bulk of the circumcised races are found within certain climates.

  59. Slaves by purchase were circumcised,[55] as were any strangers, who were also circumcised before being allowed to partake of the passover or to become Jewish citizens.

  60. Travers states that Jews who are circumcised are not subject to either form of cancer.

  61. This circumcision only takes place once in three or four years, and the children are from four to eight years of age; of fifteen circumcised at the feast witnessed by M.

  62. The third child of the mother who had previously lost two infants at the rite was, however, to be circumcised when arrived at adult age, provided no further counter-indication occurred.

  63. Previously to the ordination, Paul, the great proclaimer of the abrogation of the Law by the Gospel, circumcised the young evangelist.

  64. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and circumcised her son.

  65. The patriarch Abraham was the first man circumcised by God's command.

  66. If we are thus circumcised from sins, then will a new name be given us, as the prophet Isaiah said, "God will call his servants by other names.

  67. The stone knife, which circumcised the child, betokened the stone of which the apostle said, "The stone verily was Christ.

  68. In Sicily, the religion and language of the Greeks were eradicated; and such was the docility of the rising generation, that fifteen thousand boys were circumcised and clothed on the same day with the son of the Fatimite caliph.

  69. Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.

  70. Timothy was circumcised in obedience to national law and custom not upon any compromise of religious principle.

  71. And certain men came down from Judæa and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

  72. St. Paul took and circumcised him to conciliate the Jews.

  73. They were the men for whom the decisions of the Apostolic Council had no weight, and who held still as of old that unless a man be circumcised he could not be saved.

  74. They were, like Cornelius, Proselytes of the Gate, who observed merely the seven precepts of Noah and renounced idolatry, but were not circumcised or subject to the restrictions and duties of the Jewish ritual.

  75. They saw that it was a case of war to the death, one party or the other must conquer, and therefore in self-defence they raised the cry, "Unless the Gentile converts be circumcised after the manner of Moses they cannot be saved.


  76. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "circumcised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    converted; justified; reborn; redeemed; regenerate; renewed; saved