Joshua 5:4
2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
And this is the cause why Joshua 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 Israel 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 the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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- BSB
- Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.
- KJV
- And this is the cause why Joshua 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.
- WEB
- This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.
- ASV
- And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.
- DARBY
- And this is the cause why Joshua circumcised [them]: all the people that had come out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they came out of Egypt.
- BLB
- And this [is] the reason that Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt, males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.
- ÅB
- Grunnen til at Josva omskar dem, var denne: Alt det folk som dro ut av Egypt - alle mennene, alle krigsfolkene - var død i ørkenen på veien fra Egypt.
- OTB
- Dette er grunnen til at Josva omskar dem: alle mennene, krigsmennene som kom ut av Egypt, døde i ørkenen på reisen etter å ha forlatt Egypt.
- B1930
- Grunnen til at Josva omskar dem, var denne: Alt det folk som drog ut av Egypten - alle mennene, alle krigsfolkene - var død i ørkenen på veien fra Egypten.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Corinthians 10:5
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:16
So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
Read in contextNumbers 26:64–65
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 2:14
And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.
Read in contextNumbers 14:22
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
Read in contextHebrews 3:17–19
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
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