Joshua 5:3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Cross References

Exodus 4:25

But Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it, and said, “Truly you are a bridegroom of blood to me!”

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

Joshua 5:2

At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites a second time.”

Joshua 5:4

This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the warriors, had died during the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.