Joshua 5

5And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, ^awhich were by the sea, ^bheard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart ^cmelted, ^dneither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

²At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee ^||sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. ³And Joshua made him ^||sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at ^||the hill of the foreskins. ⁴And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: ^eAll 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. ⁵Now 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 out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised. ⁶For the children of Israel walked ^fforty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord ^gsware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, ^ha land that floweth with milk and honey. ⁷And ⁱtheir children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. ⁸And it came to pass, ^†when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, ^ktill they were whole. ⁹And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away ^lthe reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called ^||mGilgal unto this day.

¹⁰And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover ⁿon the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. ¹¹And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and ^oparched corn in the selfsame day. ¹²And ^pthe 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 did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

¹³And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood ^qa man over against him ^rwith his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? ¹⁴And he said, Nay; but as ^||captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua ^sfell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? ¹⁵And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, ^tLoose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.