Joshua 5:4

New International Reader's Version

Here is why Joshua circumcised them. All the men who came out of Egypt had died. They died while they were wandering through the Sinai Desert. They were the men old enough to serve in the army.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

And here is what you can be just as sure of. Not one of these people will see the land I promised to give them. They have seen my glory. They have seen the signs I did in Egypt. And they have seen what I did in the desert. But they did not obey me. And they have tested me ten times.

1 Corinthians 10:5

But God was not pleased with most of them. Their bodies were scattered in the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Between the time we left Kadesh Barnea and the time we went across the Zered Valley, 38 years had passed. By then, all the fighting men who had been in our camp from the beginning had died. The Lord had warned them that it would happen.

Deuteronomy 2:16

Finally, the last of the fighting men among the people died.

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made knives out of flint. Then he used them to circumcise the men of Israel at Gibeath Haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

All the men who came out had been circumcised. But all the men born in the desert during the journey from Egypt hadn’t been circumcised.