Joshua 5

¹ Now when the news came to all the kingskings of the Amorites on the west sideside of JordanJordan, and all the kingskings of the Canaanites living by the seasea, how the Lordthe Lord had made the waters of JordanJordan drydry beforebefore the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael, till they had gone across, their hearts became like waterwater, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael.

² At that timetime the Lordthe Lord saidsaid to JoshuaJoshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael circumcisioncircumcision a second timetime.

³ So JoshuaJoshua made stone knives and gave the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael circumcisioncircumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

⁴ And this is the reason why JoshuaJoshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of EgyptEgypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the wayway, after they came out of EgyptEgypt.

⁵ All the people who came out had undergone circumcisioncircumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from EgyptEgypt had not.

⁶ For the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael were wandering in the waste landland for fortyforty years, till all the nationnation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of EgyptEgypt, were dead, because they did not givegive ear to the voicevoice of the Lordthe Lord: to whom the Lordthe Lord saidsaid, with an oathoath, that he would not let them seesee the landland which the Lordthe Lord had givengiven his word to their fathersfathers to givegive usus, a landland flowing with milkmilk and honeyhoney.

⁷ And their childrenchildren, who came up in their place, now underwent circumcisioncircumcision by the hands of JoshuaJoshua, not having had it before: for there had been no circumcisioncircumcision on the journey.

⁸ So when all the nationnation had undergone circumcisioncircumcision, they kept in their tents till they were well again.

⁹ And the Lordthe Lord saidsaid to JoshuaJoshua, TodayToday the shameshame of EgyptEgypt has been rolled away from you. So that placeplace was named GilgalGilgal, to this dayday.

¹⁰ So the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael putput up their tents in GilgalGilgal; and they kept the PassoverPassover on the fourteenthfourteenth day ofday of the monthmonth, in the eveningevening, in the lowlandslowlands of JerichoJericho.

¹¹ And on the dayday after the PassoverPassover, they had for their food the produce of the landland, unleavenedunleavened cakes and dry grain on the same dayday.

¹² And there was no more mannamanna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the landland; the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael had mannamanna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaanland of Canaan was their food.

¹³ Now when JoshuaJoshua was near JerichoJericho, liftinglifting up his eyeseyes he sawsaw a manman in front of him, with his swordsword uncovereduncovered in his handhand: and JoshuaJoshua went up to him and saidsaid, Are you for usus or against usus?

¹⁴ And he saidsaid, No; but I have comecome as captaincaptain of the armiesarmies of the Lordthe Lord. Then JoshuaJoshua, fallingfalling down with his faceface to the earthearth in worshipworship, saidsaid, What has my lordmy lord to saysay to his servantservant?

¹⁵ And the captaincaptain of the Lordthe Lord's armyarmy saidsaid to JoshuaJoshua, Take off your shoesshoes from your feetfeet, for the placeplace where you are is holyholy. And JoshuaJoshua did so.