Joshua 5:4

Modern English Version

Now this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: All the males who came out of Egypt who were men of fighting age had died in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

Because all those men seeing My glory and My signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted Me now these ten times, and have not listened to My voice,

1 Corinthians 10:5

But with many of them God was not well pleased, and they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Now the length of time it took for us to come to Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war perished from among the army, just as the Lord swore to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

When all the men of war had died off from among the people,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at the Hill of the Foreskins called Gibeath Haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

All of the people who had come out were circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt were not circumcised.