5:2 circumcise this second generation. Lit., “circumcise a second time” (see NLT mg and commentary). 5:3 Gibeath-haaraloth. This means “the Hill of the Foreskins” (cf. NLT mg). The name suggests Joshua circumcised the men on a hill or hillock near Israel’s camp at Gilgal. The foreskin (‘arelah [TH6190, ZH6889]) is the skin covering the glans; in circumcision, it is surgically cut away. 5:6 the LORD vowed … he had sworn. The Hebrew phrasing is the same in both places: “which Yahweh had sworn.”