“And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering,’ you would not have condemned the blameless.
Joshua 5:5 - The Scriptures 2009 For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way as they came out of Mitsrayim had not been circumcised. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Though all the people who came out were circumcised, yet all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way after Israel came out of Egypt had not been circumcised. American Standard Version (1901) For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised. Common English Bible All the people who went out were circumcised. But none of the people born in the desert on the way after they had left Egypt had been circumcised. Catholic Public Domain Version all these had been circumcised. But the people who were born in the desert, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert, |
“And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering,’ you would not have condemned the blameless.
So, if an uncircumcised one watches over the righteousnesses of the Torah, shall not his uncircumcision be reckoned as circumcision?
The circumcision is naught, and the uncircumcision is naught, but the guarding of the commands of Elohim does matter!
For in Messiah יהושע neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but belief working through love.
For in Messiah יהושע neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any strength, but a renewed creature.
And this is why Yehoshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Mitsrayim who were males, all the men of battle, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Mitsrayim.
For the children of Yisra’ĕl walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation – the men of battle who came out of Mitsrayim – were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of יהוה, to whom יהוה swore not to show them the land which יהוה had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, “a land flowing with milk and honey.”