Our flesh, my flesh, is God's enemy. Because, as Paul says, no good thing dwells in it. Sin dwells in it.
Satan's nature.
So............that's why Christ was crucified. In the flesh--in the form of a serpent (like Moses lifted up).
Not only to substitute for us, taking our penalty,
But.........also to destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil.
Christ crucified the flesh.
So that when we receive, and take, enjoy, believe in, and experience Christ:
we also receive the inoculation against the flesh, the death to the flesh which is now contained in the Spirit
(in our spirit).
Anyway.............that is what circumcision is a picture of. The cutting off of the flesh. In the crucifixion of Christ.
As Paul says. So Jehovah commanded Moses to do it...............and Moses, because he didn't want to offend his wife,
didn't do it. But------as a picture--------there's no 'getting around' our denial of ourselves, the cross of Christ. All of us
have to go through it. Otherwise----------we're in death. So..........Moses did it, when faced with its real, practical importance. And his wife was still mad. I'm missing the 'touching the feet' thing..........is that in the Bible?