²At that time Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make for yourself knives of flint, and circumcise the Israelites^e a second time.” ³So Joshua made knives of flint, and he circumcised the Israelites^f at the hill of the foreskins.^g ⁴This is the reason why Joshua circumcised all the people: all the males who went out from Egypt, all the warriors, died in the wilderness as they went out from Egypt on the journey.^h ⁵For all the people who left were circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness on the journeyⁱ after they left from Egypt were not circumcised. ⁶For forty years the Israelites^j traveled in the wilderness until all the nation, the warriors that left Egypt, perished, because they did not listen to the voice of Yahweh. To them Yahweh swore that they would not see the land that he^k swore to their ancestors^l to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. ⁷And it was their children whom he raised in their place that Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the journey.^m

The Israelites Celebrate Passover in Canaan

⁸And it happened, when all the nation had finished circumcising, they remained where they were in the camp until they recovered.

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Footnotes

eLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
fLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
gHebrew “Gibeath-haaraloth”
hLiterally “on the road”
iLiterally “on the road”
jLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
kHebrew “Yahweh”
lOr “fathers”
mLiterally “on the road”