So Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at [a]the hill of the foreskins. And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: (A)All the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Egypt. For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 5:3 Heb. Gibeath Haaraloth

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