Joshua 5:4

Tree of Life Version

Now this is the reason why Joshua circumcised: all the people that came out of Egypt who were males—all the men of war—had died in the wilderness along the way after they came out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

none of the people who saw My glory and My miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet tested Me these ten times and did not obey My Voice—

1 Corinthians 10:5

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:14

“The time that we traveled from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Wadi Zered was 38 years—until all the generation of the men of war from within the camp came to an end, as Adonai had sworn to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

“Now when all the men of war had finished dying from among the people,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised Bnei-Yisrael at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

Joshua 5:5

Though all the people that came out were circumcised, none of the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had been circumcised.