Joshua 5:4

New English Translation

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.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

1 Corinthians 10:5

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

Joshua 5:3

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

Joshua 5:5

Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.