So it was (A)their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

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 (B)reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called (C)Gilgal[a] to this day.

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Footnotes

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

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