[Gamecock]

***But we do know only people who heard the Word were baptized in the New Testament. They all had to choose.***

The point is we see Baptism as a sign and seal of the covenant replacing the rite of circumcision. Little Jewish boys were circumcised before "knowing God."

[ichabod1]

That's because Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of the firstborn of Moses and flung it at his feet and said "Surely a bloody husband art thou to me." Exd 4:25