⁴ And this is the reason that Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came·​·out from Egypt, that were males, all the men^◦ of war, died in the wilderness in the way, when they came·​·forth out·​·of Egypt.

⁸ "The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.