Joshua 5:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

Because all these men, having seen my glory and the signs which I have done in Egypt and in the waste land, still have put me to the test ten times, and have not given ear to my voice;

1 Corinthians 10:5

But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.

Deuteronomy 2:16

So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

Joshua 5:5

All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.