OLD TESTAMENT

Genesis 17:25

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25

Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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Verse 25. Full thirteen, or beginning his fourteenth year, at which age the Arabs and Mahometans still generally circumcise; but without any order from God. Calmet.

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