Joshua 5:7

New American Bible - revised edition

It was the children God raised up in their stead whom Joshua circumcised, for these were yet with foreskins, not having been circumcised on the journey.

Cross References

Genesis 34:14

They said to them, “We are not able to do this thing: to give our sister to an uncircumcised man. For that would be a disgrace for us.

Numbers 14:31

Your little ones, however, who you said would be taken as spoil, I will bring in, and they shall know the land you rejected.

Deuteronomy 1:39

Your little ones, who you said would become plunder, and your children, who as yet do not know good from evil—they shall enter there; to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it.

Joshua 5:6

Now the Israelites wandered forty years in the wilderness, until all the warriors among the people that came forth from Egypt died off because they had not listened to the voice of the Lord. For the Lord swore that he would not let them see the land he had sworn to their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 5:8

When the circumcision of the entire nation was complete, they remained in camp where they were, until they recovered.