For all the people that came out, were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way after they came out of Egypt, were [a]not circumcised.

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people of the men of war that came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not show them the land, (A)which the Lord had sworn unto their fathers, that he would give us, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.

So their sons whom he raised up in their stead, Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they circumcised them not by the way.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 5:5 For they looked daily to remove at the Lord’s commandment, which thing they that were new circumcised, could not do without great danger.

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