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So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the men of Israel at the Hill of Circumcision.[a]

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the soldiers had died on the way through the desert after they left Egypt. The men who left Egypt had been circumcised. However, the men born later, on the way through the desert, were not circumcised.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:3 Or “Hill of Foreskins.”

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