Joshua 5:5-7

International Children’s Bible

⁵ The men who had come out of Egypt had been circumcised. But many were born in the desert on the trip from Egypt. They had not been circumcised. ⁶ The Israelites had moved about in the desert for 40 years. During that time all the fighting men who had left Egypt had died. This was because they had not obeyed the Lord. So the Lord swore they would not see the land. This was the land he had promised their ancestors to give them. It was a land where much food grows. ⁷ So their sons took their places. But none of the sons born on the trip from Egypt had been circumcised. So Joshua circumcised them.