When they had gone only a short distance from the city, Joseph said to his steward, “Go, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you returned evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup?
Deuteronomy 2:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “Just as soon as all the warriors had died off from among the people, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So when all the men of war had died from among the people, American Standard Version (1901) So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, Common English Bible Now as soon as all those of fighting age had died, Catholic Public Domain Version Then, after all the fighting men had fallen, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And after all the fighting men were dead, |
When they had gone only a short distance from the city, Joseph said to his steward, “Go, follow after the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you returned evil for good? Why have you stolen my silver cup?
Everyone who approaches the tabernacle of the Lord will die. Are we all to perish?”
And the length of time we had traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation of warriors had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn concerning them.
This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the warriors, had died during the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.