Joshua 5:4

New International Version

Now this is why he did so: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of military age—died in the wilderness on the way after leaving Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

not one of those who saw my glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times—

1 Corinthians 10:5

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died,

Joshua 5:3

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

Joshua 5:5

All the people that came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness during the journey from Egypt had not.