◄ Joshua 5:4 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the warriors, had died during the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.

New American Bible
This was the reason for the circumcision: Of all the people who had come out of Egypt, every male of military age had died in the wilderness during the journey after they came out of Egypt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

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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:

All the

Numbers 14:22 But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

Numbers 26:64,65 Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai. . . .

Deuteronomy 2:16 And after all the fighting men were dead,

1 Corinthians 10:5 But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

Hebrews 3:17-19 And with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert? . . .

Context
The Circumcision at Gilgal
…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:5Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:14
And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn:

Joshua 5:3
He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:5
Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,

Joshua 5:3
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