Joshua 5:5 - Forerunner Commentary

Joshua 5:5

3 So Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at¹ the hill of the foreskins.

4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: ^aAll the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Egypt.

5 For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.

6 For the children of Israel walked ^aforty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were¹ consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord—to whom the Lord swore that ^bHe would not show them the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, ^c“a land flowing with milk and honey.”

7 Then Joshua circumcised ^atheir sons whom He raised up in their place; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

8 So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp ^atill they were healed.

Verse Comparison: Joshua 5:5

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American Standard Version
For 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, they had not circumcised.

Amplified® Bible
Though all the people who came out were circumcised, yet all the people who were born in the wilderness on the way after Israel came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

Contemporary English Version
(SEE 5:4)

Darby English Version
For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness on the way, after they came out of Egypt, [them] had they not circumcised.

Good News Bible
(SEE 5:4)

King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

New International Version
All the people that came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the desert during the journey from Egypt had not.

New King James Version
For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
For all the people who came out had undergone circumcision, but all the people born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not undergone circumcision.

Revised Standard Version
Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people that were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

Young's Literal Translation
for all the people who are coming out were circumcised, and all the people who `are' born in the wilderness, in the way, in their coming out from Egypt, they have not circumcised;

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