What was the sign of God's covenant with Abraham?

Answer 1

Jn:7:22: Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

Acts:7:8: And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

Answer 2

The outward sign of the Abrahamic covenant was the circumcision of all male members of his house. The more subtle sign was the way they lived their lives and the priesthood that was conferred on Abraham and those of his male descendents who were worthy.

Answer 3

There is no sign as such, but a promise to Abraham that he and his posterity would receive certain blessings. One is that they would be as numerous as the sands of the sea and that through his line would come the royal preisthood.

Answer 4

A smoking pot fire and flaming torch passing between two animals.

Answer 5

The Book of Genesis says that Abraham was told to circumcise himself and his sons as a sign of the covenant.

Answer 6

The circumcision was to be the sign by which Abraham and his descendants would lay claim to the promise of God as His people who he made a covenant with.

Answer 7

According to the Torah, the first sign of the covenant was Abraham's circumcision.

Answer 8

The sign of the covenant is generally considered to be the act of circumcision.

Answer 9

Male circumcision was one.