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After all the males had been circumcised, they rested in the camp until they were healed.

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the shame of your slavery in Egypt.” So that place has been called Gilgal[a] to this day.

10 While the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 5:9 Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew word galal, meaning “to roll.”
  2. 5:10 This day in the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar occurred in late March, April, or early May.

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