Joshua 5:5

New International Version

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

Cross References

Matthew 12:7

If you had known what these words mean, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

Romans 2:26

So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements, will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing. Keeping God’s commands is what counts.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

Galatians 6:15

Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is the new creation.

Joshua 5:4

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.

Joshua 5:6

The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the Lord. For the Lord had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.