The document discusses why circumcision is traditionally performed on the 8th day of a baby boy's life. It provides two key clotting factors: 1. The baby's intestinal tract does not start manufacturing vitamin K, which is essential for blood clotting, until 5-7 days after birth. 2. The baby's prothrombin levels, another important clotting factor, peak at 110% of normal levels on the 8th day of life. Performing circumcision at this time takes advantage of optimal clotting abilities to minimize bleeding risks.

1. Why Circumcision on the 8th Day?
Clotting factor #1: Vitamin K not manufactured in the
baby’s intestinal tract until the 5th to 7th day.
Clotting factor #2: Prothrombin peaks at 110% of
normal on the 8th day.

2. Structure of Chapters 6 & 7
Chapter 6 Chapter 7
6:1-9, 20-25 The 7:1-5, 17-26 Holy war &
commands & the the procedures of
procedures of learning executing it
them well
6:10-19 The (heart) 7:6-16 The (contractual)
relationship with relationship with
Yahweh Yahweh

3. politics
Pressure of Life
ethics
Sequence
Logical
epistemology
metaphysics
Yahweh or an idol?

4. Baal -- Idol of Nature s Climate Cycle
blessing
Cultic of rain,
prostitution fertility of
– to trigger grain and
fertility herds
Rain, Fertility: needs of an agrarian economy
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5. Dan
Bethel
Jerusalem

6. politics
Pressure of Life
ethics
Sequence
Logical
epistemology
metaphysics
Yahweh or an idol?

7. The rebellious people are tired
of . . .being the recipient of a name.
They want to name themselves. . . .It is
the desire to exclude God from His
creation. And it is this solidarity in a
name, this unity in separation from God,
which was to keep man from ever again
being separated on earth. . . .It was in
this, man’s environment, built by man
for man, with any other intervention or
power excluded, that man could make a
name for himself. . . . Jacques Ellul, The Meaning of
the City