Joshua 5

¹ And it came to passcame to pass, when all the kingskings of the Amorites, which were on the sideside of JordanJordan westward, and all the kingskings of the Canaanites, which were by the seasea, heardheard that the LORDthe LORD had drieddried up the waters of JordanJordan from beforebefore the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael, until we were passedpassed over, that their heart meltedmelted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael.

² At that timetime the LORDthe LORD saidsaid unto JoshuaJoshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcisecircumcise again the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael the second timetime.

³ And JoshuaJoshua made him sharp knives, and circumcisedcircumcised the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael at the hill of the foreskinsforeskins.

⁴ And this is the cause why JoshuaJoshua did circumcisecircumcise: All the people that came out of EgyptEgypt, that were males, even all the men of warwar, dieddied in the wildernesswilderness by the wayway, after they came out of EgyptEgypt.

⁵ Now all the people that came out were circumcisedcircumcised: but all the people that were born in the wildernesswilderness by the wayway as they came forth out of EgyptEgypt, them they had not circumcisedcircumcised.

⁶ For the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael walkedwalked fortyforty years in the wildernesswilderness, till all the peoplepeople that were men of warwar, which came out of EgyptEgypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voicevoice of the LORDthe LORD: unto whom the LORDthe LORD swaresware that he would not shewshew them the landland, which the LORDthe LORD swaresware unto their fathersfathers that he would givegive usus, a landland that floweth with milkmilk and honeyhoney.

⁷ And their childrenchildren, whom he raised up in their stead, them JoshuaJoshua circumcisedcircumcised: for they were uncircumciseduncircumcised, because they had not circumcisedcircumcised them by the wayway.

⁸ And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the peoplepeople, that they abode in their places in the campcamp, till they were whole.

⁹ And the LORDthe LORD saidsaid unto JoshuaJoshua, This dayday have I rolled away the reproachreproach of EgyptEgypt from off you. Wherefore the namename of the placeplace is calledcalled GilgalGilgal unto this dayday.

¹⁰ And the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael encampedencamped in GilgalGilgal, and kept the passoverpassover on the fourteenthfourteenth day ofday of the monthmonth at even in the plainsplains of JerichoJericho.

¹¹ And they did eateat of the old corn of the landland on the morrow after the passoverpassover, unleavenedunleavened cakes, and parchedparched corn in the selfsame dayday.

¹² And the mannamanna ceased on the morrow after they had eateneaten of the oldold corn of the landland; neither had the childrenchildren of IsraelIsrael mannamanna any more; but they did eateat of the fruitfruit of the land of Canaanland of Canaan that year.

¹³ And it came to pass, when JoshuaJoshua was by JerichoJericho, that he liftedlifted up his eyeseyes and looked, and, behold, there stoodstood a manman over against him with his swordsword drawn in his handhand: and JoshuaJoshua went unto him, and saidsaid unto him, Art thou for usus, or for our adversariesadversaries?

¹⁴ And he saidsaid, Nay; but as captaincaptain of the hosthost of the LORDthe LORD am I now comecome. And JoshuaJoshua fell on his facefell on his face to the earthearth, and did worshipworship, and saidsaid unto him, What saithsaith my lordmy lord unto his servantservant?

¹⁵ And the captaincaptain of the LORDthe LORD's hosthost saidsaid unto JoshuaJoshua, Loose thy shoeshoe from off thy footfoot; for the placeplace whereon thou standeststandest is holyholy. And JoshuaJoshua did so.