Joshua 5:5

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

Matthew 12:7

If you had known what this meant, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

Romans 2:26

Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteousness of the law, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God is everything.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith which works through love.

Galatians 6:15

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but a new creation.

Joshua 5:4

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.

Joshua 5:6

The Israelites had traveled forty years in the wilderness until all the people, the men of fighting age who came out of Egypt, died, because they did not obey the Lord. The Lord had sworn not to let them see the land that He had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.