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At that time Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make for yourself knives of flint, and circumcise the Israelites[a] a second time.” So Joshua made knives of flint, and he circumcised the Israelites[b] at the hill of the foreskins.[c] This is the reason why Joshua circumcised all the people: all the males who went out from Egypt, all the warriors, died in the wilderness as they went out from Egypt on the journey.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 5:2 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  2. Joshua 5:3 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Joshua 5:3 Hebrew “Gibeath-haaraloth”
  4. Joshua 5:4 Literally “on the road”