Joshua 5:2–8

²At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make ^dflint knives for yourself, and circumcise the sons of Israel again the second time.” ³So Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at ³the hill of the foreskins. ⁴And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: ^eAll the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Egypt. ⁵For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised. ⁶For the children of Israel walked ^fforty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were ⁴consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord—to whom the Lord swore that ^gHe would not show them the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, ^h“a land flowing with milk and honey.” ⁷Then Joshua circumcised ⁱtheir sons whom He raised up in their place; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

⁸So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp ^jtill they were healed.