5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites who
[were] on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the
Canaanites who [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried
up the waters of 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 the LORD said to Joshua, Make thee sharp
knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second
time.
5:3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the
children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
5:4 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.
5:5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised; but all
the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way as
they came forth from Egypt, [them] they had not circumcised.
5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the
wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war who came
out of Egypt were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice
of the LORD: to whom the LORD swore that he would not show them
the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would
give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
5:7 And their children, [whom] he raised up in their stead, them
Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they
had not circumcised them by the way.
5:8 And it came to pass when they had done circumcising all the
people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they
were whole.
5:9 And the LORD said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the
reproach of Egypt from off you: Wherefore the name of the place
is called Gilgal to this day.
5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the
plains of Jericho.
5:11 And they ate of the old corn of the land on the morrow
after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched [corn] in the
same day.
5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of
the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel
manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan
that year.
5:13 And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, that he
lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man
over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua
went to him, and said to him, [Art] thou for us, or for our
adversaries?
5:14 And he said, No; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD
am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and
worshiped, and said to him, What saith my lord to his servant?
5:15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said to Joshua, Loose
thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place on which thou
standest is holy: and Joshua did so.
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