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So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.[a]

Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness. Those who left Egypt had all been circumcised, but none of those born after the Exodus, during the years in the wilderness, had been circumcised.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:3 Gibeath-haaraloth means “hill of foreskins.”

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