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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Leviticus 12:3.
Leviticus 12:3
Excerpted from: The Doctrine of Israel (Part Two): The Old CovenantHere in Genesis 17 it is quite graphic there about what has all occurred. Then Isaac obviously was circumcised, Ishmael was circumcised, Jacob was obviously circumcised, and then I assume he circumcised his sons. We do not know anything after that. The next time we hear of it is there at Moses circumcising his son, and then Exodus 12 when the Passover regulations were made. So they had to be circumcised then. And you know what? It is only mentioned three times after that until you get to Joshua 5.
Did you know (this was an astounding fact that I knew, but I did not know, if you will), that circumcision is not mentioned in the Old Covenant. Between the first Passover, that is, when the tenth plague occurred, and Joshua 5, it is only mentioned three times, and only in Leviticus 12:3 when it is talking about the rules of childbirth, does it concern physical circumcision. It says there that a male child shall be circumcised on the eighth day. That is it, it is gone. There is nothing more said about it there. The other two times that it appears in the Pentateuch before we get to Joshua 5, is Deuteronomy 10:16 and Deuteronomy 30:6, and both of those times it appears in the phrase "circumcise the foreskin of the heart" or "circumcise the heart." You can see that already in the Pentateuch the idea of circumcision in God's mind was moving away from the physical and going toward the circumcision of the heart, the spiritual circumcising, not an outward part of the body, but an inward part of the heart. Something inside.
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