And with it Hod Moses praised ‘then’ (az, =8). It is this that is written (Ex. 15:1) Then (az) did Moses sing... Because it is Hod that He gave to Moses. (Is. 58:9) ‘‘Az’ (Then) you shall call, and Ha-Shem shall answer...
And it is [Var. and they are] the eight days of circumcision, and, following them, the covenant (bryt) which is Yesod – the ‘Righteous-One of the world’, and through which is revealed
the Yod of circumcision – the tenth of the ten sephirot.