“And it came to be, when all the men of battle had finally perished from among the people,
“And the time we took to come from Qaḏ
that יהוה spoke to me, saying,
And when they had gone out of the city, not having gone far, Yosĕ
“Anyone who comes near the Dwelling Place of יהוה dies. Shall we be consumed – to die?”
And this is why Yehoshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Mitsrayim who were males, all the men of battle, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Mitsrayim.