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.<n id="1" />

Now<n id="1" /> all the men<n id="2" /> who left were circumcised, but all the sons<n id="3" /> born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.

The <sc>Lordsc> said to Joshua, &#8220;Today I have taken away<n id="1" /> the disgrace<n id="2" /> of Egypt from you.&#8221; So that place is called Gilgal<n id="3" /> even to this day.p>

They told him, &#8220;Your subjects<n id="1" /> have come from a very distant land because of the reputation<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt<n id="3" />

It then crossed to Azmon, extended to the Stream of Egypt,<n id="1" /> and ended at the sea. This was their<n id="2" /> southern border.p>

Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt<n id="1" /> and the border at the Mediterranean Sea.<n id="2" />p>

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir,<n id="1" /> while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt down when I intervened in their land.<n id="1" /> Then I brought you out.

When I brought your fathers out of Egypt, you arrived at the sea. The Egyptians chased your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.

For we heard how the <sc>Lordsc> dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.<n id="1" />

from the Shihor River<n id="1" /> east of<n id="2" /> Egypt northward to the territory of Ekron (it is regarded as Canaanite territory),<n id="3" /> including the area belonging to the five Philistine lords who ruled in Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as Avvite land<n id="4" />

Your fathers<n id="1" /> cried out for help to the <sc>Lordsc>; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark,<n id="2" /> and then drowned them in the sea.<n id="3" /> You witnessed with your very own eyes<n id="4" /> what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">Now<n id="1" /> obey<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and worship<n id="3" /> him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors<n id="4" /> worshiped<n id="5" /> beyond the Euphrates<n id="6" /> and in Egypt and worship<n id="7" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.

For the <sc>Lordsc> our God took us and our fathers out of slavery<n id="1" /> in the land of Egypt<n id="2" /> and performed these awesome miracles<n id="3" /> before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money.<n id="1" /> So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.<n id="2" />p>

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 <sc>Lordsc>, died off.<n id="1" /> For the <sc>Lordsc> had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them,<n id="2" /> a land rich in<n id="3" /> milk and honey.