Joshua 5:6 - King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

⁶ For the sons of Israel had walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who had come out from Egypt were consumed, those who did not listen to the voice of Jehovah, to whom Jehovah had sworn to them not to cause them to see the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers, to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey; these were consumed.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For the Israelites walked forty years in the wilderness till all who were men of war who came out of Egypt perished, because they did not hearken to the voice of the Lord; to them the Lord swore that He would not let them see the land which the Lord swore to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Common English Bible

⁶ This was because the Israelites journeyed forty years in the desert until the whole nation died off. These were the men old enough to fight who went out from Egypt and who hadn’t obeyed the LORD. The LORD had pledged to them never to show them the land that the LORD had pledged to their ancestors to give us. It is a land full of milk and honey.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ throughout the forty years of the journey in the very broad wilderness, were uncircumcised, until the ones who had not listened to the voice of the Lord were consumed. For he had sworn to them before, that he would not reveal to them the land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 5:6 Cross References

Psalm 107:4

They wandered in the wilderness, in a deserted way; they found no city of dwelling;

Exodus 3:17

And I have said, I will bring you up from the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite; to a land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus 3:8

And I have come down to deliver them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and broad land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Jebusite.

Jeremiah 2:2

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, So says Jehovah, I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your betrothals, your going after Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Ezekiel 20:15

And I also lifted up My hand to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey; it is the glory to all the lands,

Ezekiel 20:6

In that day I lifted up My hand to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt into a land flowing with milk and honey that I had searched out for them, the glory of it is to all lands.

Joel 3:18

And it shall be in that day, the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streams of Judah shall flow with waters. And a spring will go forth from the house of Jehovah, and it will water the valley of Shittim.

Numbers 14:23

they shall not see the land which I have sworn to their fathers. Yea, not one of those scorning Me shall see it.

Numbers 26:63

These are those numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the sons of Israel in the plains of Moab, beside Jordan, near Jericho.

Deuteronomy 1:3

And it happened, in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month on the first of the month, Moses spoke to the sons of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded him concerning them;

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 2:7

For Jehovah your God has blessed you with all the work of your hands; He has known your walking through this great wilderness. Jehovah your God has been with you these forty years; you have not lacked a thing.

Deuteronomy 8:4

Your clothes did not wear out on you, and your foot did not swell, these forty years.

Hebrews 3:11

so I swore in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.” LXX-Psalm 94:7-11; MT-Psalm 95:7-11

Joshua 1:6

Be strong and brave. For you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give to them.

Joshua 24:7

And they cried to Jehovah, and He set thick darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them. And your eyes saw that which I had done in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness many days.

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.

Joshua 5:7

And He raised their sons up in their place. Joshua circumcised them, for they had been uncircumcised; for they had not been circumcised in the way.