Genesis 17:11
If those Days were not Cut Short
And you all have been cut short, a self eternal flesh of a foreskin of yourselves, and he has become to a sign of a cut out alliance between myself and between yourselves.And ye circumcised the flesh of your uncircumcision; and it was for a sign of the covenant between me and between you.
And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin. And it shall be a token of the covenant between Me and you.
Error retrieving verse.
And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and you.
Footnotes
| 619 | The Nemalim
The Nemalim הנמלים (#5244) means the cut-short ones (ants). This is 2nd masculine plural Niphal of the root verb muwl (#4135) to be clipped short, cut around. (cf. the 2nd masculine plural Qal form מלתם in Deut. 10:16) The Nemalim are mentioned in Proverbs 6:6 and 30:25 where it is understood as “ants” (Arabic cognate) even though the Proverb says they are a people: “the Nemalim, a people not mighty, and they are standing-upright within the Harvest (#7019) of the bread-loaf of themselves” Proverbs 30:25 literal |
| 620 | a flesh of your foreskin. Plural you all + singular foreskin, i.e a foreskin of yourselves. Strong’s #6190 orlah, foreskin. This is a feminine noun. This is particularly odd for the male foreskin, especially when the uncircumcised foreskin is masculine, arel (#6189). It’s also interesting that it functions as a verb, aral (#6188) in Leviticus 19:23 and Habakkuk 2:16 meaning to expose, “You all have been satiated of shame from glory. Drink also yourself and be exposed [as uncircumcised…Rest’s “woman” …], she is circling upon you a cup [or an owl #3563], the right hand of Yahweh, and utter shame upon your glory.” Habakkuk 2:16 literal |
