Joshua 5:3

New English Translation

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.

Cross References

Exodus 4:25

But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off the foreskin of her son and touched it to Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

Joshua 5:2

At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.”

Joshua 5:4

This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt.