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Joshua 5 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

Israel Is Circumcised

Jos 5:1

Now it came about when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of Israel until [fn]they had crossed, that their hearts melted, and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the sons of Israel.

Jos 5:2

At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”

Jos 5:3So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at [fn]Gibeath-haaraloth.
Jos 5:4This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way after they came out of Egypt.
Jos 5:5For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
Jos 5:6For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, [fn]perished because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD had sworn that He would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Jos 5:7So their children whom He raised up in their place, Joshua [fn]circumcised; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them along the way.
Jos 5:8

Now when they had finished circumcising all the nation, they remained in their places in the camp until they recovered.

Jos 5:9Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the shame of Egypt from you.” So the name of that place is called [fn]Gilgal to this day.
Jos 5:10

While the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal they celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho.

Jos 5:11Then on the day after the Passover, on [fn]that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and roasted grain.
Jos 5:12And the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the sons of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate some of the yield of the land of Canaan during that year.
Jos 5:13

Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, he raised his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

Jos 5:14He said, “No; rather I have come now as captain of the army of the LORD.” And Joshua fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down, and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his servant?”
Jos 5:15And the captain of the LORD’S army said to Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
NASB20 Footnotes
Other mss we
I.e., the hill of the foreskins
Lit were finished
Lit circumcised them
I.e., wheel, or stone circle
Lit this
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