Joshua 5:5

God's Word

The men who left Egypt had been circumcised. However, the men born later, on the way through the desert, were not circumcised.

Cross References

Matthew 12:7

If you had known what ‘I want mercy, not sacrifices’ means, you would not have condemned innocent people.

Romans 2:26

So if a man does what those laws demand, won’t he be considered circumcised even if he is uncircumcised?

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing, and the lack of it is nothing. But keeping what God commands is everything.

Galatians 5:6

As far as our relationship to Christ Jesus is concerned, it doesn’t matter whether we are circumcised or not. But what matters is a faith that expresses itself through love.

Galatians 6:15

Certainly, it doesn’t matter whether a person is circumcised or not. Rather, what matters is being a new creation.

Joshua 5:4

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the soldiers had died on the way through the desert after they left Egypt.

Joshua 5:6

For 40 years the Israelites wandered through the desert until all their soldiers who left Egypt died. They died because they disobeyed the Lord. The Lord swore that he would not let them see this land flowing with milk and honey which he had sworn to give our ancestors.