◄ Joshua 5:5 ►
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New Revised Standard Version
Although all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people born on the journey through the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

New American Bible
Though all the men who came out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness during the journey after the departure from Egypt were circumcised.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,

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Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,

they had not

Deuteronomy 12:8,9 You shall not do there the things we do here this day, every man that which seemeth good to himself. . . .

Hosea 6:6,7 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts. . . .

Matthew 12:7 And if you knew what this meaneth: I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: you would never have condemned the innocent.

Romans 2:26 If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

1 Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing: but the observance of the commandments of God.

Galatians 5:6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision: but faith that worketh by Charity.

Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision: but a new creature.

Context
The Circumcision at Gilgal
…4Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way: 5Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,6During the forty years of the journey in the wide wilderness, were uncircumcised: till all they were consumed that had not heard the voice of the Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that he would not shew them the land flowing with milk and honey.…
Cross References
Joshua 5:4
Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way:

Joshua 5:6
During the forty years of the journey in the wide wilderness, were uncircumcised: till all they were consumed that had not heard the voice of the Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that he would not shew them the land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 5:4
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