Joshua 5:5-7

5:5 Now ¹  all the men ²  who left were circumcised, but all the sons ³  born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised. 5:6 Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the Lord, died off. ⁴  For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them, ⁵  a land rich in ⁶  milk and honey. 5:7 He replaced them with their sons, ⁷  whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.

¹ tn Or “indeed.”

² tn Heb “people.”

³ tn Heb “all the people.”

⁴ tn Heb “all the nation, the men of war who went out from Egypt, who did not listen to the voice of the Lord, came to an end.”

⁵ tn Some Hebrew mss, as well as the Syriac version, support this reading. Most ancient witnesses read “us.”

⁶ tn Heb “flowing with.”

⁷ tn Heb “their sons he raised up in their place.”