Joshua 5:4

Israeli Authorized Version

And this is the cause why Y'howshu`a did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:5

But with many of them Elohim was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:16

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as YY sware unto them.

Numbers 14:22

Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Joshua 5:3

And Y'howshu`a made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Yisrael at the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:5

Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.