Joshua 5:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

This had to be done, because none of Israel's baby boys had been circumcised during the forty years that Israel had wandered through the desert after leaving Egypt. And why had they wandered for forty years? It was because straight after they left Egypt, the men in the army had disobeyed the LORD. And the LORD had said, “None of you men will ever live to see the land that I promised Israel. It is a land rich with milk and honey, and some day your children will live there, but not before you die here in the desert.”

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

I swear that not one of these Israelites will enter the land I promised to give their ancestors. These people have seen my power in Egypt and in the desert, but they will never see Canaan. They have disobeyed and tested me too many times.

1 Corinthians 10:5

But most of them did not please God. So they died, and their bodies were scattered all over the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:14

This was thirty-eight years after we left Kadesh-Barnea, and by that time all the men who had been in the army at Kadesh-Barnea had died, just as the LORD had said they would.

Joshua 5:3

Joshua made the knives, then circumcised those men and boys at Haaraloth Hill.