Joshua 5:3 - King James 2000

³ And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ So Joshua made knives of flint and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Common English Bible

³ So Joshua made flint knives for himself. He circumcised the Israelites at Foreskins Hill.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:3 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.

Matthew 16:24

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Joshua 5:2

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

Joshua 5:4

And this is the reason why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.