[the_daug]

A Jew is obligated to circumcise from Genesis 17:10 Exodus 4:24-26 is before the law and the covenant at Sinai.

[LearsFool]

A Jew is obligated to circumcise from Genesis 17:10 Exodus 4:24-26 is before the law and the covenant at Sinai.

Abraham's descendents, you mean? Would that include Edomites? ;-)

Nevertheless, it was a commandment of the Law of Moses, and as such was regarded by many Jews as necessary for becoming one of God's people. (See Acts 15, for instance.) They were wrong.