If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, , you would not have condemned the innocent.
Joshua 5:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Though all the people who came out were circumcised, none of the people born in the wilderness along the way were circumcised after they had come out of Egypt. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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, |
If you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, , you would not have condemned the innocent.
So if an uncircumcised man keeps the law’s requirements, will not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?
Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter. Keeping God’s commands is what matters.
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.
For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.
This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males #– #all the men of war #– #had died in the wilderness along the way after they had come out of Egypt.
For the Israelites wandered in the wilderness for forty years until all the nation’s men of war who came out of Egypt had died off because they did not obey the Lord. So the Lord vowed never to let them see the land he had sworn to their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.