Joshua 5:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way.

Cross References

Genesis 34:14

They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.

Numbers 14:31

But your little ones, who you said would become plunder, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have despised.

Deuteronomy 1:39

And as for your little ones who you thought would become plunder, your children who today do not yet know right from wrong, they shall enter there; to them I will give it, and they shall take possession of it.

Joshua 5:6

For the Israelites traveled forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the warriors who came out of Egypt, perished, not having listened to the voice of the Lord. To them the Lord swore that he would not let them see the land that he had sworn to their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 5:8

When the circumcising of all the nation was done, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.