Joshua 5:3
Good News Translation
So Joshua did as the LORD had commanded, and he circumcised the Israelites at a place called Circumcision Hill.

New Revised Standard Version
So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Contemporary English Version
Joshua made the knives, then circumcised those men and boys at Haaraloth Hill.

New American Bible
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.

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He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua

Genesis 17:23-27 And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him. . . .

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

the hill of the foreskins.

Context
The Circumcision at Gilgal
2At that time the Lord said to Joshua: Make thee knives of stone, and circumcise the second time the children of Israel. 3He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.4Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way:…
Cross References
Exodus 4:25
Immediately Sephora took a very sharp stone, and circumcised the foreskin of her son, and touched his feet, and said: A bloody spouse art thou to me.

Joshua 5:2
At that time the Lord said to Joshua: Make thee knives of stone, and circumcise the second time the children of Israel.

Joshua 5:4
Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way:

Joshua 5:2
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