The Knowledge of Yahweh: Uncircumcised Israel. This paragraph contains two originally distinct prophecies, unrelated to their present context, though quite possibly Jeremianic. They teach the glory of Israel's religion (Jeremiah 9:23 f.), and the futility of physical without spiritual circumcision (Jeremiah 9:25 f.). In the second, Israel is degraded to the level of other, uncircumcised nations.

Jeremiah 9:26. The corner-clipt (Jeremiah 25:23; Jeremiah 49:32) are those shaved around the brow, according to the practice of some Arab tribes (cf. Herod. iii. 8, and contrast Leviticus 19:27 *).

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