1 When all the kings of the Amorites,
who were beyond the Jordan westward,
and all the kings of the Canaanites, who
were by the sea, heard how Yahweh had
dried up the waters of the Jordan from
before the children of Israel until we had
crossed over, their heart melted, and there
was no more spirit in them, because of the
children of Israel.

2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua,
“Make flint knives, and circumcise again
the sons of Israel the second time.”

3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and
circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of
the foreskins.

4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised
them: all the people who came out of
Egypt, who were males, even allthe men of
war, died in the wilderness along the way,
after they came out of Egypt.

5 For all the people who came out were
circumcised; but all the people who were
born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

6 For the children of Israel walked forty
years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out
of Egypt, were consumed, because they
didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh
swore to them that he wouldn’t let them
see the land which Yahweh swore to their
fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

7 Their children, whom he raised up in
their place, were circumcised by Joshua,
for they wereuncircumcised, because they
had not circumcised them on the way.

8 When they were done circumcising the
whole nation, they stayed in their places in
the camp until they were healed.