At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make (A)flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.[a] And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: (B)all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 5:3 Gibeath-haaraloth means the hill of the foreskins

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