Joshua 5:3

New Living Translation

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Cross References

Exodus 4:25

But Moses’ wife, Zipporah, took a flint knife and circumcised her son. She touched his feet with the foreskin and said, “Now you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross, and follow me.

Joshua 5:2

At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise this second generation of Israelites.”

Joshua 5:4

Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness.