When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Yosef said to his steward, *Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, 'Why have you rewarded evil for good?
The days in which we came from Kadesh-Barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD swore to them.
This is the cause why Yehoshua did circumcise: all the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.