Joshua 5:7

New Century Version

Their sons took their places. But none of the sons born on the trip from Egypt had been circumcised, so Joshua circumcised them.

Cross References

Genesis 34:14

The brothers said to them, “We cannot allow you to marry our sister, because you are not circumcised. That would be a disgrace to us.

Numbers 14:31

You said that your children would be taken away, but I will bring them into the land to enjoy what you refused.

Deuteronomy 1:39

“Your little children that you said would be captured, who do not know right from wrong at this time, will go into the land. I will give the land to them, and they will take it for their own.

Joshua 5:6

The Israelites had moved about in the desert for forty years. During that time all the fighting men who had left Egypt had died because they had not obeyed the Lord. So the Lord swore they would not see the land he had promised their ancestors to give them, a fertile land.

Joshua 5:8

After all the Israelites had been circumcised, they stayed in camp until they were healed.