Circumcision was not a sign of purification works of the law
No one can enter the sanctuary unless circumcised.
So then, how can one do any of the purification works of the law unless they are first circumcised?
Which proves one must be first circumcised to do any of the other purification works of the law.
Ezekiel 44:9 This is what the Sovereign LORD says:
No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh is to enter my sanctuary, not even the foreigners who live among the Israelites.
Romans 2:27-29 Circumcision is broadly defined as "when one keeps the law." Uncircumcision is "when one breaks the law."
Circumcision of the flesh is a sign that the rest of the purification works can be done,
for none can be done without circumcision of the flesh.
Romans 2:27-29 King James Version (KJV)
27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who
by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
Exodus 22:29-30 King James Version (KJV)
29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam;
on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.
Leviticus 12:2-3 King James Version (KJV)
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then
she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
3 And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.
The eight day to be circumcised coincides with offerings of fruit, the first born sons, the first born of oxen, and sheep, and CIRCUMCISION of the flesh.
Circumcision represents any works that a person has to do as commanded by God to be called a child of God, and to be ‘clean’ versus ‘unclean’, as the Gentiles were, those who did not get circumcised and do all the purification works of the law to atone for themselves, which INCLUDED THE SACRIFICE OF ANIMALS.
Leviticus 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Romans 4:11 and
he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while uncircumcised, so that he might be the father of all who believe without being circumcised, that righteousness might be credited to them, 12and the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who also follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham which he had while uncircumcised.
13For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith. 14For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified; 15for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no violation.
Read how Paul goes against the Galatians for being talked into doing the purification works of the law. They were talked into observing special days and getting circumcised. Paul says what? Paul says that if they allow themselves to get CIRCUMCISED, then they have to do ALL THE WORKS OF THE LAW, because no doubt, circumcision of the flesh is the sign that a person can do all the works.
Galatians 5:2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. 3For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
Right there, there is no way you can ever get out of it that circumcision of the flesh IS THE SIGN that one does all the purification works of the law.
Read here how the DIVIDING WALL IS ALL THE PURIFICATION WORKS OF THE LAW:
Ephesians 2:10-18
In verse 15, Paul says that God "creates n Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace." The apostle defines what these "two" are in verse 11: "Therefore, remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh - who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands. . . ." "who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of division between us" (verse 14). Whether physically Gentile or Israelite, those who have "put on the new man" have one Spirit, God's Holy Spirit.
Ephesian 2:15 by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace
Colossians 2:14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
Those rules and regulations are the purification/ceremonial works of the law.