Joshua 5:3 - Revised Standard Version

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ He did what the Lord had commanded: and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:3 Cross References

Exodus 4:25

Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.

Joshua 5:2

At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the people of Israel again the second time.”

Joshua 5:4

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