Genesis 17:11
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You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of a covenant between me and you.
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageCanaan was the land promised by God to Abraham and his descendants, roughly corresponding to the southern Levant along the eastern Mediterranean. In this covenant context, circumcision marked Abraham’s household as belonging to God while they awaited the promised inheritance in Canaan.
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Genesis 17:11 mentions Canaan.
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