Joshua 5:4

Catholic Public Domain Version

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;

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

And yet, all the men who have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and who have tested me ten times already, and yet have not obeyed my voice,

1 Corinthians 10:5

But with most of them, God was not well-pleased. For they were struck down in the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Then, from the time that we advanced from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the torrent Zered, there were thirty-eight years, until the entire generation of the men who were fit for war had been consumed out of the camp, just as the Lord had sworn.

Deuteronomy 2:16

Then, after all the fighting men had fallen,

Joshua 5:3

He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:5

all these had been circumcised. But the people who were born in the desert,