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Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan , and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea , how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel , till they had gone across, their hearts became like water , and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel .
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At that time the Lord said to Joshua , Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time .
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So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.
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And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt , all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way , after they came out of Egypt .
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All the people who came out had undergone circumcision ; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.
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For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation , that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt , were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord : to whom the Lord said , with an oath , that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us , a land flowing with milk and honey .
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And their children , who came up in their place, now underwent circumcision by the hands of Joshua , not having had it before: for there had been no circumcision on the journey.
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So when all the nation had undergone circumcision , they kept in their tents till they were well again.
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And the Lord said to Joshua , Today the shame of Egypt has been rolled away from you. So that place was named Gilgal , to this day .
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So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal ; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month , in the evening , in the lowlands of Jericho .
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And on the day after the Passover , they had for their food the produce of the land , unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day .
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And there was no more manna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the land ; the children of Israel had manna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaan was their food.
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Now when Joshua was near Jericho , lifting up his eyes he saw a man in front of him, with his sword uncovered in his hand : and Joshua went up to him and said , Are you for us or against us ?
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And he said , No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord . Then Joshua , falling down with his face to the earth in worship , said , What has my lord to say to his servant ?
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And the captain of the Lord 's army said to Joshua , Take off your shoes from your feet , for the place where you are is holy . And Joshua did so.