But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.
Joshua 5:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Although all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people born on the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Though all the people who came out were circumcised, yet all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way after Israel came out of Egypt had not been circumcised. American Standard Version (1901) For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised. Common English Bible All the people who went out were circumcised. But none of the people born in the desert on the way after they had left Egypt had been circumcised. Catholic Public Domain Version all these had been circumcised. But the people who were born in the desert, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert, |
But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.
So, if the uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but obeying the commandments of God is everything.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything; the only thing that counts is faith working through love.
For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision is anything, but a new creation is everything!
This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the warriors, had died during the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.
For the Israelites traveled forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the warriors who came out of Egypt, perished, not having listened to the voice of the Lord. To them the Lord swore that he would not let them see the land that he had sworn to their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.