Joshua 5:4

The Passion Translation

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.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:5

Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their dead bodies were scattered around the wilderness.

Joshua 5:3

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