Joshua 5 - Israeli Authorized Version

¹ And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Yarden westward, and all the kings of the Kenaanim, which were by the sea, heard that YY had dried up the waters of Yarden from before the children of Yisrael, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Yisrael.

² At that time YY said unto Y'howshu`a, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Yisrael the second time.

³ And Y'howshu`a made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Yisrael at the hill of the foreskins.

⁴ And this is the cause why Y'howshu`a did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

⁵ 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.

⁶ For the children of Yisrael walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of YY : unto whom YY sware that he would not shew them the land, which YY sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

⁷ And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Y'howshu`a circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

⁸ And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.

⁹ And YY said unto Y'howshu`a, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.

¹⁰ And the children of Yisrael encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Yericho.

¹¹ And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.

¹² And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Yisrael manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Kenaan that year.

¹³ And it came to pass, when Y'howshu`a was by Yericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Y'howshu`a went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?

¹⁴ And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of YY am I now come. And Y'howshu`a fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my YY unto his servant?

¹⁵ And the captain of YY 's host said unto Y'howshu`a, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Y'howshu`a did so.