When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the (A)reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called (B)Gilgal[a] to this day.

First Passover in Canaan

10 While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover (C)on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 5:9 Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew for to roll

And after the whole nation had been circumcised, they remained where they were in camp until they were healed.(A)

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal[a](B) to this day.

10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month,(C) while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 5:9 Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew for roll.