Joshua 5:8 meaning and explanation

And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.

Joshua 5:8, Berean Standard Bible

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After the Jordan crossing, the Lord commanded Joshua to circumcise the generation born in the wilderness, since the men who left Egypt had died and their sons had not been circumcised along the way. Verse 8 describes the quiet aftermath: the whole nation obeyed, then stayed in camp at Gilgal until they were healed.

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