Joshua Chapter 5 Back Next{5:1} It happened, when all the kings of the
Amorites, who were
beyond the
Jordan westward, and all the kings of the
Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of
Israel, until we had passed over, that their
heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
{5:2} At that time, Yahweh said to
Joshua, "Make
flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time."
{5:3} Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the
hill of the foreskins.
{5:4} This is the reason Joshua circumcised: all the people who came out of
Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
{5:5} For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
{5:6} For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their
fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with
milk and
honey.
{5:7} Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.
{5:8} It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation, that they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
{5:9} Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you." Therefore the name of that place was called
Gilgal to this day.
{5:10} The children of Israel
encamped in
Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of
Jericho.
{5:11} They ate unleavened
cakes and parched
grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
{5:12} The
manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn't have manna any more; but they ate of the
fruit of the land of
Canaan that year.
{5:13} It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"
{5:14} He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh's
army." Joshua fell on his face to the
earth, and worshipped, and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"
{5:15} The prince of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take your shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy." Joshua did so.
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