Joshua 5:4-5

5:4 This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt. ¹  5:5 Now ²  all the men ³  who left were circumcised, but all the sons ⁴  born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.

Joshua 5:7

5:7 He replaced them with their sons, ⁵  whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.

¹ tn Heb “All the people who went out from Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the desert in the way when they went out from Egypt.”

² tn Or “indeed.”

³ tn Heb “people.”

⁴ tn Heb “all the people.”

³ tn Heb “their sons he raised up in their place.”