Joshua 5:4

Revised Standard Version

And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the proof these ten times and have not hearkened to my voice,

1 Corinthians 10:5

Nevertheless with most of them God was not pleased; for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

“So when all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the people of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people that were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.