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Joshua 5:4
Joshua 5:4 is verse 4 of Joshua chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
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.
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Joshua 5:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible
2 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”
3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
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.
5 Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.
6 For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 14:22not 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—
Numbers 26:64Among 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 26:65For 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.
Deuteronomy 2:16Now when all the fighting men among the people had died,
1 Corinthians 10:5Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
Hebrews 3:18And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed?
Hebrews 3:19So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.