Welcome to the Baymaw podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings.

Today we're covering the life of Isaac Yitzhak, a scene in Genesis 24 and 26, where we begin

to see the initial realization of God's promise to Abraham. Now before we get started, we

do actually a little bit of follow-up. When we were talking a couple episodes ago about

circumcision and we didn't know what other cultures observed circumcision and we got a little

bit of feedback on that. So yeah, we had some listeners. I had actually a few listeners make

some comments, one in particular, big shout out to Christy for helping us out, but she actually

had a whole bunch of found some notes, had some notes and just kicked some stuff around,

but it was just a good question and I'm glad I didn't make any promises when we were doing

that podcast, but what I knew and didn't know, even a basic Wikipedia search educated me up a

little bit about that. So you can actually look at that male circumcision on Wikipedia and it has

an article about just some of the history there and some of the thoughts. A lot of that history,

we don't know a lot about, but there were some other cultures. Even some other like disconnected

cultures, African cultures, it seemed to practice it more as a right of passage or entrance

in the manhood, but the big one that might be relevant to the biblical conversation, Christy

pointing this out was Egyptians and it may be argued which came first, but it would seem,

based on the history we have, pretty close to the same time, maybe a few centuries before,

the Egyptians are practicing circumcision. This would be possibly even before

Abraham before they go down there, but they're practicing circumcision. Now the best records we

have seem to indicate that they are practicing circumcision in terms of priesthood. What's really

cool about that is it seems from what we know that the Egyptians are circumcising priests,

it's a mark of priesthood. If God has all males circumcised when they come out and begin to become

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