Joshua 5:3

The Passion Translation

So Joshua made stone knives and circumcised all the men at a place they named Circumcision Hill.

Cross References

Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If you truly want to follow me, you should at once completely reject and disown your own life. And you must be willing to share my cross and experience it as your own, as you continually surrender to my ways.

Joshua 5:2

At that time, Yahweh commanded Joshua, “Make knives of flint and circumcise the men of Israel again.”

Joshua 5:4

Joshua had to circumcise all the men and boys—all the fighting men. Although they had been circumcised before leaving Egypt, the male children born during the forty years they spent in the wilderness had not been circumcised. Also, by the end of that forty years, all the fighting men who had come out of Egypt had died because they had not listened to the voice of Yahweh. So Yahweh had made an oath that they would not see the land he had promised to give their ancestors, a fertile land.