The time we spent travelling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was thirty-eight years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, ‘Get up. Pursue the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, “Why have you repaid evil for good?
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.
