Why didn't the Israelites nor Moses practice circumcision during his reign over Israel when circumcision is supposed to have originated as a law under Moses?

Answer 1

ANSWER:

Circumcision was actually given to Abraham and his descendants as a sign of

the covenant.

Gen:17:10: This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you

and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

Gen:17:11: And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be

a token of the covenant betwixt me and you.

Gen:17:12: And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you,

every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought

with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.

But after four hundred years of bondage in Egypt, they (speaking of Israel) lost

sight of it and most of the other requirements of GOD. It became known as a

law of Moses because he had to instruct the children of Israel concerning

circumcision since they had forgotten.

[ correction: Joshua 5:5

5 All the people who came out of Egypt

had undergone circumcision;

but all the people whose birth had taken place

in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.

]

Moses, himself, had lost sight of its importance, and nearly lost his life because

of his negligence. See Exodus 4:24-26.

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HONK!

-- If you've ever walked along any part of the route of the Exodus down the

west coast of the Sinai Peninsula, as I have, it would quickly dawn on you

that this is no stroll in the park. If you're part of a throng of as many as a few

million, who literally never know from one minute to the next when they will be

instructed to stop, or for how long, or when they will be instructed to pick up

and start walking again, it would not take a 300 IQ to realize that the last thing

you need is a million or more people in simultaneous recuperation following a

mass, nationwide, simultaneous circumcision. In the US, we can't even function

coherently as a nation after a day of eating turkey, or a night of celebrating the

New Year.

-- If you read carefully ... always a good idea if you want to try to understand

whether it really says what you've always been told it says ... you find that

circumcision was indeed maintained in Egypt, and those who came out at the

Exodus were circumcised. But those who were born in the wilderness, and

comprised the majority of the population who arrived at the promised land

40 years later, were not.

-- And by the way ... Moses did not "reign" over Israel.