The sons of these men had never been circumcised, and it was this new generation that Joshua circumcised.
They said to him, “We cannot let our sister marry a man who is not circumcised; that would be a disgrace for us.
You said that your children would be captured, but I will bring them into the land that you rejected, and it will be their home.
“Then the Lord said to all of us, ‘Your children, who are still too young to know right from wrong, will enter the land—the children you said would be seized by your enemies. I will give the land to them, and they will occupy it.
After the circumcision was completed, the whole nation stayed in the camp until the wounds had healed.