Joshua 5:4

The English Standar 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 in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:5

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

Deuteronomy 2:16

"So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,

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.

Numbers 14:22

none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.[1]

Joshua 5:5

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