Joshua 5:4 meaning and explanation
Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.
Joshua 5:4, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
The narrator pauses to explain why circumcision was needed again at this point. The generation that left Egypt had been circumcised, but they died in the wilderness after refusing to trust the LORD, and the sons born during the forty years of wandering had never been circumcised.
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