Joshua 5:4

New Century Version

This is why Joshua circumcised the men: After the Israelites left Egypt, all the men old enough to serve in the army died in the desert on the way out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

All these people saw my glory and the miracles I did in Egypt and in the desert, but they disobeyed me and tested me ten times.

1 Corinthians 10:5

But God was not pleased with most of them, so they died in the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:14

It had been thirty-eight years from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, all the fighting men from that time had died, as the Lord had promised would happen.

Deuteronomy 2:16

When the last of those fighting men had died,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made knives from flint stones and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

The men who had come out of Egypt had been circumcised, but none of those who were born in the desert on the trip from Egypt had been circumcised.