Joshua 5:4

Rotherham Emphasized Bible 1902

Now, this, is the cause why Joshua did circumcise,—all the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males, all the men of war, died in the desert, by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:5

Nevertheless, with the most of them, God, was not well-pleased, for they were strewed along in the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:16

So it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed by dying, out of the midst of the people,

Deuteronomy 2:14

Now, the days in which we journeyed from Kadesh-barnea, as far as where we crossed the ravine of Zered, were thirty-eight years,—until all the generation of the men of war were consumed out of the midst of the camp, as Yahweh had sworn unto them.

Numbers 14:22

Verily, none of the men who have been beholding my glory and my signs, which I have done in Egypt and in the desert,—and have put me to the proof these ten times, and have not hearkened unto my voice,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made him knives of flint,—and circumcised the sons of Israel, at the Hill of Foreskins.

Joshua 5:5

For, though all the people who came forth had been circumcised, yet, all the people who were born in the desert by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt, had they not circumcised.