Joshua 5:2–8

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.