Joshua 5:4 “Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egy…”

Joshua 5:4

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

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.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And this is the cause why Ioshua circumcised all the people, euen the males that came out of Egypt, because all the men of warre were dead in the wildernesse by the way after they came out of Egypt.

Darby Translation

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.

Young's Literal Translation

And this [is] the thing [for] which Joshua circumciseth [them]: all the people who are coming out of Egypt, who are males, all the men of war have died in the wilderness, in the way, in their coming out of Egypt,

Bible in Basic English

And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.

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Cross references

“All the”

Deuteronomy 2:16 1 Corinthians 10:5 Numbers 14:22 Hebrews 3:17–19 Numbers 26:64 Numbers 26:65

Deuteronomy 2:16 · BSB

Now when all the fighting men among the people had died,

1 Corinthians 10:5 · BSB

Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:22 · BSB

not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

Hebrews 3:17–19 · BSB

And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

Numbers 26:64 · BSB

Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

Numbers 26:65 · BSB

For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Also

Deuteronomy 2:14

Deuteronomy 2:14 · BSB

The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

5Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.

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