But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
Joshua 5:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised. 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, |
But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
If therefore the uncircumcised keep the ordinances of the law, won't his uncircumcision be accounted as circumcision?
Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the mitzvot of God.
For in Messiah Yeshua neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.
For in Messiah Yeshua neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation.
This is the cause why Yehoshua did circumcise: all the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.
For the children of Yisra'el walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of the LORD: to whom the LORD swore 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.