So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelite men at Gibeath-haaraloth.
Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son’s foreskin, threw it at Moses’s feet, and said, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me! ”
At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelite men again.”
This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males #— #all the men of war #— #had died in the wilderness along the way after they had come out of Egypt.