Commentary for Sanhedrin 118:9
אי בעית אימא מילה מעיקר' לאברהם הוא דקא מזהר ליה רחמנא ואתה את בריתי תשמור אתה וזרעך אחריך לדורותם אתה וזרעך אין איניש אחרינא לא
An alternative answer is this:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is in answer to the first difficulty of circumcision having been given to the Noachides and repeated at Sinai. ');"><sup>11</sup></span>
Tosafot on Sanhedrin
s.v. "And behold, Fructification and Muliplication": It is astonishing -- why do you think it was not said to gentiles? And if it is because it was not counted in the Seven Noahide Laws -- behold v.s. [Sanhedrin 58b] "rise-and-do laws are not counted." And possibly this is also an abide-and-refrain, because He who commanded Fructification and Multiplication also commanded not to waste semen.
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