Joshua 5:5

A New Generation Is Circumcised

⁴ This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males—all the men of war—had died in the wilderness along the way after they had come out of Egypt. ⁵ Though all the people who came out were circumcised, none of the people born in the wilderness along the way were circumcised after they had come out of Egypt. ⁶ For the Israelites wandered in the wilderness 40 years until all the nation’s men of war who came out of Egypt had died off because they did not obey the Lord. So the Lord vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

In the Wilderness

Out of Egypt

In The Desert

Way In The Wilderness

Egypt

Deuteronomy 12:8-9

“You are not to do as we are doing here today; everyone is doing whatever seems right in his own eyes.

Hosea 6:6-7

For I desire loyalty and not sacrifice,
the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Matthew 12:7

If you had known what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.

Romans 2:26

Therefore if an uncircumcised man keeps the law’s requirements, will his uncircumcision not be counted as circumcision?

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision does not matter and uncircumcision does not matter, but keeping God’s commands does.

Galatians 5:6

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision accomplishes anything; what matters is faith working through love.

Galatians 6:15

For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation.