Joshua 5:6-9

Living Bible

⁶ For the nation of Israel had traveled back and forth across the wilderness for forty years until all the men who had been old enough to bear arms when they left Egypt were dead; they had not obeyed the Lord, and he vowed that he wouldn’t let them enter the land he had promised to Israel—a land that “flowed with milk and honey.” ⁷ So now Joshua circumcised their children—the men who had grown up to take their fathers’ places.

^8-9 And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have ended your shame of not being circumcised.”^[a] So the place where this was done was called Gilgal (meaning, “to end”), and is still called that today. After the ceremony the entire nation rested in camp until the raw flesh of their wounds had been healed.