Joshua 5:7 - The Scriptures 2009

⁷ And Yehoshua circumcised their sons whom He raised up in their place; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ So it was their uncircumcised children whom He raised up in their stead whom Joshua circumcised, because the rite had not been performed on the way.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them did Joshua circumcise: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

Common English Bible

⁷ Joshua circumcised their children, the ones the LORD had set in their place. They were uncircumcised because they hadn’t been circumcised on the way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The sons of these ones succeeded to the place of their fathers, and they were circumcised by Joshua. For they were uncircumcised, just as they had been born, and no one had circumcised them along the way.

Joshua 5:7 Cross References

Deuteronomy 1:39

And your little ones and your children, who you say are for a prey, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they are going in there. And to them I give it, and they are to possess it.

Numbers 14:31

But your little ones, whom you said would become a prey, I shall bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.

Joshua 5:6

For the children of Yisra’ĕl walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation – the men of battle who came out of Mitsrayim – were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of יהוה, to whom יהוה swore not to show them the land which יהוה had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, “a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Joshua 5:8

And it came to be, when they had completed circumcising all the nation, that they stayed in their places in the camp till they were healed.

Genesis 34:14

And they said to them, “We are not able to do this matter, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us.