Joshua 5:4

This [is] the reason why Joshua circumcised all the people: all the males who went out from Egypt, all the warriors, died in the wilderness as they went out from Egypt {on the journey}.

Numbers 26:64-65

And among these there was not a man of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the {Israelites} in the desert of Sinai.

Deuteronomy 2:16

"{And then} when all the men of war {had died} from among the people,

1 Corinthians 10:5

But God was not pleased with the majority of them, for they were struck down in the desert.

Numbers 14:22

But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice,

Deuteronomy 2:14

Now the {length of time} that we had traveled from Kadesh Barnea until [the time when] we crossed the wadi of Zered [was] thirty-eight years, until the perishing of all of that generation; [that is], the men of war from the midst of the camp as Yahweh had sworn to them.

Hebrews 3:17-19

And with whom was he angry [for] forty years? [Was it] not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

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Summary

And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

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Numbers 14:22
But because all the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the desert yet tested me these ten times and did not listen to my voice,
Numbers 26:64
And among these there was not a man of those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the {Israelites} in the desert of Sinai.
Deuteronomy 2:16
"{And then} when all the men of war {had died} from among the people,
1 Corinthians 10:5
But God was not pleased with the majority of them, for they were struck down in the desert.
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he angry [for] forty years? [Was it] not with those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?