under my thigh

vs 29 "now place your hand beneath my thigh And swear" .As explained in the narrative of Abraham (Gen. 24:2), he meant that Joseph should swear by covenant of the circumcision.

Since one who swears must take with his hand an article related to a mitzvah such as a Torah scroll or Tefillin, and circumcision was his first mitzvah, and he had fulfilled it with pain, it was dear to him; so he took it.

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