Joshua 5:1-3

The Voice

5 When the kings of the Amorites, who lived in the hills west of the Jordan, and the kings of the Canaanite cities on the plain by the sea heard how the Eternal had dried up the waters of the Jordan so the Israelites could cross, they were alarmed, and their courage failed at the thought of the advancing Israelites.

² At that time, the Eternal One commanded Joshua to make flint knives and reinstate the rite of circumcision for male Israelites. ³ So Joshua made flint knives as he was told to do, and the Israelite males were circumcised at Gibeath-haaraloth.^[a]