Joshua 5:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:5

But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:16

And after all the fighting men were dead,

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn.

Numbers 14:22

But yet all the men that have seen my majesty, and the signs that I have done in Egypt, and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now ten times, and have not obeyed my voice,

Joshua 5:3

He did what the Lord had commanded: and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:5

Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,