Joshua 5

¹As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west , and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea , heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over , their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel .

²At that time the Lord said to Joshua , Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time .

³So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth .

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

⁵Though all the people who came out had been circumcised , yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised .

⁶For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness , until all the nation , the men of war who came out of Egypt , perished , because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; the Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey .

⁷So it was their children , whom he raised up in their place , that Joshua circumcised . For they were uncircumcised , because they had not been circumcised on the way .

⁸When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished , they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed .

⁹And the Lord said to Joshua , Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day .

¹⁰While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal , they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho .

¹¹And the day after the Passover , on that very day , they ate of the produce of the land , unleavened cakes and parched grain.

¹²And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land . And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel , but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year .

¹³When Joshua was by Jericho , he lifted up his eyes and looked , and behold , a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand . And Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries ?

¹⁴And he said , No ; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come . And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, What does my lord say to his servant ?

¹⁵And the commander of the Lord ’s army said to Joshua , Take off your sandals from your feet , for the place where you are standing is holy . And Joshua did so.