Devine Scripture

Joshua 5:4

Joshua chapter 5 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.

Context

v.3And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

v.4This passage

v.5For 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Deuteronomy 2:14

    And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto them.

  • Numbers 14:22

    because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

  • Deuteronomy 2:16

    So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

  • Hebrews 3:17

    And with whom was he displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

  • 1 Corinthians 10:5

    Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • Numbers 26:64

    But among these there was not a man of them that were numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.