Joshua 5:2–8

²At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make thee stone-knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. ³And Joshua made him stone-knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of Araloth. ⁴And this is the cause why Joshua circumcised them: all the people that had come out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they came out of Egypt. ⁵For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness on the way, after they came out of Egypt, them had they not circumcised. ⁶For the children of Israel had walked forty years in the wilderness, till the whole nation of men of war had perished who had come out of Egypt, who had not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah; to whom Jehovah had sworn that he would not show them the land which Jehovah had sworn unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. ⁷And their sons whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way. ⁸And it came to pass when the whole nation had finished being circumcised, that they abode in their place in the camp, till they were whole.