Joshua 5:4 - New Revised Standard Version

⁴ 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.

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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;

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way.

Joshua 5:4 Cross References

Numbers 14:22

none of the people who have seen my glory and the signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tested me these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,

1 Corinthians 10:5

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, and they were struck down in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:14

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.

Deuteronomy 2:16

Just as soon as all the warriors had died off from among the people,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

Although all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people born on the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.