Joshua 5:4

New American Bible - revised edition

This was the reason for the circumcision: Of all the people who had come out of Egypt, every male of military age had died in the wilderness during the journey after they came out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

of all the people who have seen my glory and the signs I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and who nevertheless have put me to the test ten times already and have not obeyed me,

1 Corinthians 10:5

Yet God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Now thirty-eight years had elapsed between our departure from Kadesh-barnea and the crossing of the Wadi Zered; in the meantime the whole generation of soldiers had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn they should.

Deuteronomy 2:16

When at length death had put an end to all the soldiers among the people,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

Though all the men who came out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness during the journey after the departure from Egypt were circumcised.