Joshua 5:4

World Messianic Bible British Edition

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

because all those men who have seen my glory and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

1 Corinthians 10:5

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

Deuteronomy 2:14

The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as the LORD swore to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from amongst the people,

Joshua 5:3

Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:5

For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.