Joshua 5:2 - King James 2000

² At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make you sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make knives of flint and circumcise the [new generation of] Israelites as before.

American Standard Version (1901)

² At that time Jehovah said unto Joshua, Make thee knives of flint, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

Common English Bible

² At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make yourself flint knives. Circumcise the Israelites for a second time.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² So at that time, the Lord said to Joshua: "Make for yourself knives of stone, and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time."

Joshua 5:2 Cross References

Exodus 4:25

Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband are you to me.

Romans 2:29

But he is a Jew, who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Romans 4:11

And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

Deuteronomy 10:16

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

Deuteronomy 30:6

And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.

Colossians 2:11

In whom also you are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

Joshua 5:3

And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.