Joshua 5:4 - King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

⁴ And this is the reason Joshua circumcised: All the people who had come out from Egypt, who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness, in the way, as they came out of Egypt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ And this is the cause 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And this is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they came out of Egypt.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.

Common English Bible

⁴ This is the reason Joshua did so: All the people who went out of Egypt, that is, all the men who were soldiers, had died in the desert on the way after they left Egypt.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Now this is the reason for the second circumcision: All the people who departed from Egypt of the male gender, all the men fit for war, died in the desert during the very long wandering way;

Joshua 5:4 Cross References

Numbers 14:22

for all the men who are seeing My glory, and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tried Me these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,

1 Corinthians 10:5

But God was not well-pleased with most of them, “for they were scattered in the wilderness ” Num. 14:16

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had crossed over the torrent Zered, were thirty-eight years, until the end of all the generation, even the men of war were destroyed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah swore to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

And it happened, when all the men of war had finished dying from among the people,

Joshua 5:3

And Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:5

For all the people who had come out were circumcised. And all the people who were born in the wilderness, in the way, as they came out from Egypt, had not been circumcised.