Joshua 5:9

5:9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away ¹  the disgrace ²  of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal ³  even to this day.

Joshua 22:18

22:18 Now today you dare to turn back ⁴  from following the Lord! You are rebelling today against the Lord; tomorrow he may break out in anger against ⁵  the entire community of Israel.

[5:9]  ¹ tn Heb “rolled away.”

[5:9]  ² sn One might take the disgrace of Egypt as a reference to their uncircumcised condition (see Gen 34:14), but the generation that left Egypt was circumcised (see v. 5). It more likely refers to the disgrace they experienced in Egyptian slavery. When this new generation reached the promised land and renewed their covenantal commitment to the Lord by submitting to the rite of circumcision, the Lord’s deliverance of his people from slavery, which had begun with the plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, reached its climax. See T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 59.

[5:9]  ³ sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).

[22:18]  ⁴ tn Heb “you are turning back.”

[22:18]  ⁵ tn Or “he will be angry with.”