Holy Scripture
Genesis 17:25
A church father on this verse
“Even the fact that Ishmael was circumcised in his thirteenth year is for an obvious reason, because one who is beginning to be sexually active should trim the ardor of his passion, so as to abstain from illicit unions and limit himself to a legitimate union only.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
25And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
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23And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all his homeborn servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraham, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him.
24And Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
— Genesis 17:25 —
26And at the period of that day, Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son,
27and all the men of his house, both those born in the house, and those bought with money of foreign nations.