12And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
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And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.
And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. …
And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: …
And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-17)Articles of agreement among men are usually sealed, that the covenants may be the more solemn, and the performances of the covenants the more sure, to mutual satisfaction. God therefore, being willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise the immutability of his councils , has confirmed his covenant by a seal (Heb. 6:17), which makes the foundations we build on stand sure, 2 Tim. 2:19. T…
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