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Something lost in the translation, but the CONTEXT is that the circumcision became the covenenant by which those leaving Egypt were bound as a people. It was Zipporah who actually made the Covenant with G-d. But how to explain it? In the days when the Hebrew was translated by the Egyptians into Greek, the Greeks considered women chattel. How, then, could they accept that a WOMAN could make a Covenant with G-d, let alone a covenant that would CREATE a people from whole cloth encompassing many, many ethnicities, and which would span nearly 6,000 years?
Obviously, they did not WANT to explain it, any more than they wanted to explain that Abraham was NOT the apple of G-d’s eye, Sarah was.
The concordance in most modern NT Bibles simply states that Sarah was the mother of Isaac, not that she was the Mother of a Nation. If Abraham was the key, Hagar would have been the chosen one, and Ishmael would have been the inheritor since he was Abraham’s first born son.
Likewise, no credit is given to Rebecca to whom G-d spoke and from whom Israel was born. Rebecca is only seen in the Concordance as a deceitful woman.
You got to read the whole thing, (OT,) with your mind focused. Otherwise, you lose the truth.
No. It’s not. I have read the whole thing. Several times since I first read it in college.
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