Joshua 5:5

World Messianic Bible British Edition

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.

Cross References

Matthew 12:7

But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.

Romans 2:26

If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won’t his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is keeping God’s commandments.

Galatians 5:6

For in Messiah Yeshua neither circumcision nor uncircumcision amounts to anything, but faith working through love.

Galatians 6:15

For in Messiah Yeshua neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.

Joshua 5:4

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.

Joshua 5:6

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice. The LORD swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.