NET Bible
"Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the wilderness after they left Egypt were uncircumcised."
— Joshua 5:5, NET Bible
“Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.”
“For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised. ”
“For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.”
“Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,”
“All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.”
“Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.”
A New Generation is Circumcised At that time the LORD told Joshua,“Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.”
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.
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 wilderness after they left Egypt.
Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the wilderness after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.
Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the LORD, died off. For the LORD had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn by oath to their ancestors to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.
He replaced them with their sons, whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.
When all the men had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.