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As you’re working your way through the Holiness Code presented in Leviticus 11-15 where God sets out to “distinguish” for the Hebrew people what was “clean and unclean” on a wide array of topics, you will discover — in the midst of directives pertaining a woman who’d just given birth to a baby boy — the following… Leviticus 12:3, “And on the eighth day (following his birth) the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.”

While in Exodus 12 the LORD requires Gentiles desiring to partake in the Passover to first be circumcised (which was brutal), what makes this one verse presented in Leviticus 12 so fascinating is that it’s the only mention of circumcision in the entire Law!

Aside from this rather shocking reality, you should also note that what we find articulated in this one verse is really nothing more than a restating of a command God had given to the Hebrew patriarch Abraham some 500 years earlier. Leviticus 12:3 presents nothing new.

What makes all of this so strange is that you’d assume — because this act of circumcision becomes such a pivotal and largely controversial topic in the New Testament when the Church started becoming less Jewish and more dominated by Gentile Christians — that more would have been written about it in the Law… At least as much as the Dietary Guidelines which was an equally contentious topic. And yet, Leviticus 12:3 is all we have!

As I’ve studied this particular topic I’m convinced the reason circumcision only gets such a small mention in the Law boils down to two simple realities: First, there was likely no need to expound upon it because every Jew already understood its significance.

Keep in mind when God was giving the people the Law from Sinai and later the tabernacle of meeting not only was every Hebrew male already circumcised, but an interesting event recorded in Exodus 4:24-26 had already demonstrated how serious this was to God.

In this story we read… “It came to pass” that as Moses and his family were making their way “to Egypt” following God’s commission of him at the Burning Bush, when they drew near “the encampment” of Israel “the LORD met Moses and sought to kill him!”

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