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Brith Milah

[ Sephardic Hebrew breet mee-lah; Ashkenazic Hebrew bris mee-luh, bris mee-law ]

noun

, Hebrew.
  1. the covenant between God and Abraham with respect to circumcision.

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Origin of Brith Milah1

bərīth mīlāh literally, covenant of circumcision

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