Joshua 5:4

Legacy Standard Bible

Now this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way when they came out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I have done in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,

1 Corinthians 10:5

Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased. For they were struck down in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Now the time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war came to an end from within the camp, as Yahweh had sworn to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

“So it happened when all the men of war had come to an end in death from among the people,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.