Joshua 5:4

Free Bible Version

This is the reason why Joshua had them all circumcised: all those who left Egypt—the men of fighting age—had died on the journey through the wilderness after the Exodus.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

not a single one of the those who saw my glory and the miracles I did in Egypt and in the desert—but provoked me and refused to obey me time and time again—

1 Corinthians 10:5

However, God wasn't happy with most of them, and they perished in the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:14

The time it took for us to travel from Kadesh-barnea to when we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years. By this time the entire generation of warriors had died and were no longer part of the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them would happen.

Deuteronomy 2:16

Once the people's warriors had died,

Joshua 5:3

Joshua had flint knives made and all male Israelites were circumcised at the place that became known as “the hill of foreskins.”

Joshua 5:5

They had all been circumcised when they left Egypt, but those born on the journey since then had not.