Chapter 5
1 When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward , and all the kings of the Canaanites , who were by the sea , heard how Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over , their heart melted , and there was no more spirit in them , because of the children of Israel .
2 At that time , Yahweh said to Joshua , " Make flint knives , and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time ."
3 Joshua made himself flint knives , and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins .
4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised them : all the people who came out of Egypt , who were males , even all the men of war , died in the wilderness along the way , after they came out of Egypt .
5 For all the people who came out were circumcised ; but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised .
6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation , even the men of war who came out of Egypt , were consumed , because they didn’t listen to Yahweh ’s voice . Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us , a land flowing with milk and honey .
7 Their children , whom he raised up in their place , were circumcised by Joshua , for they were uncircumcised , because they had not circumcised them on the way .
8 When they were done circumcising the whole nation , they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed .
9 Yahweh said to Joshua , " Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you ." Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day .
10 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal . They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho .
11 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover , in the same day .
12 The manna ceased on the next day , after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more , but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year .
13 When Joshua was by Jericho , he lifted up his eyes and looked , and behold , a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand . Joshua went to him and said to him , " Are you for us , or for our enemies ?"
14 He said , " No ; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh ’s army ." Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped , and asked him , " What does my lord say to his servant ?"
15 The prince of Yahweh ’s army said to Joshua , " Take off your sandals , for the place on which you stand is holy ." Joshua did so .