Joshua 5:2-12 - A New Generation Is Circumcised

² At that time LORD said to Joshua, Make for thee knives of flint, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time. ³ And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. ⁴ And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised: All the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way after they came forth out of Egypt. ⁵ For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised. ⁶ For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness till all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not hearken to the voice of LORD, to whom LORD swore that he would no ⁷ And their sons, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised because they had not circumcised them by the way. ⁸ And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the nation, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were recovered. ⁹ And LORD said to Joshua, This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.

¹⁰ And the sons of Israel encamped in Gilgal. And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. ¹¹ And they ate of the produce of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes and parched grain, in the selfsame day. ¹² And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. Neither had the sons of Israel manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.