| Chapter 5 |
| 1 | And it came to pass, when all
the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all
the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had
dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were
passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any
more, because of the children of Israel. |
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2 | At that time the LORD said
unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of
Israel the second time. |
| 3 | And Joshua made him sharp knives, and
circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. |
| 4 |
And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out
of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by
the way, after they came out of Egypt. |
| 5 | Now all the people that came
out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by
the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
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| 6 | For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till
all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed,
because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he
would not show them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he
would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey. |
| 7 | And their
children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they
were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
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| 8 | And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people,
that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole. |
| 9 |
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of
Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this
day. |
| 10 |
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of
Jericho. |
| 11
| And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the
morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame
day. |
| 12 |
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the
old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but
they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. |
| 13 | And it
came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and
looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in
his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for
our adversaries? |
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14 | And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the
LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship,
and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant? |
| 15 | And the
captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot;
for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so. |
