⁴ And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: ^(A)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.

⁵ Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for ^(A)they were overthrown^[a] in the wilderness.

¹⁶ “So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,

^64 (A)But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. ⁶⁵ For the Lord had said of them, ^(B)“They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, ^(C)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

¹⁷ And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(A)whose bodies fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And to whom did he swear that ^(B)they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? ¹⁹ So we see that ^(C)they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

¹⁴ And the time from our leaving ^(A)Kadesh-barnea until we crossed ^(B)the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, ^(C)until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

^22 (A)none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ^(B)ten times and have not obeyed my voice,