| Chapter 5
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
