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It is the consecration of manhood at the approach of 10 puberty and before marriage that is intended by the practice in primitive life, and the painful ordeal becomes a test for the youth, as in similar savage customs. Obviously in assigning the tenderest age of infancy as the time for the performance of the rite, when the pain, or consciousness of pain, is minimized, whereas Ishmael, the father of the Beduin tribe, is circumcised at thirteen years of age, the act is elevated to the dignity of ...a solemn initiation of the child into the Abrahamitic household. The solemnization of the act by a public festivity, however, as is done by the Moslem who calls it "the feast of purification" (comp. Joshua v. 9 and the art. Cir- cumcision in the J. E. ) came into use only in post-Biblical time. Whether the Deutcronomist (Deut. X. 16; xxx. 6; compare Jere- miah iv. 4 and ix. 24), in symbolizing the rite accepts the view of the priestly Code or deprecates it, is a matter open to controversy. There is no doubt, however, that the idea of the Blood-Covenant prevailed also in relation to this rite, as may be learned from its relation to the Passover feast (Exod.
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