Joshua 5:4

This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt.

Numbers 26:64-65

But there was not a man among these who had been among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.

Deuteronomy 2:16

So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

1 Corinthians 10:5

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.

Numbers 14:22

For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,

Deuteronomy 2:14

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

Hebrews 3:17-19

And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not 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
For all the people have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have tempted me now these ten times, and have not obeyed me,
Numbers 26:64
But there was not a man among these who had been among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.
Deuteronomy 2:16
So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,
1 Corinthians 10:5
But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were cut down in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:17
And against whom was God provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness?

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