Joshua · Catholic Public Domain Version
Joshua 5 Catholic Public Domain Version
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1 Therefore, after all the kings of the Amorites, who were living across the Jordan toward the western region, and all the kings of Canaan, who possessed the places beside the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of Israel, until they crossed over it, their heart was broken, and there remained in them no spirit, out of fear at the entrance of the sons of Israel.
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 So at that time, the Lord said to Joshua: “Make for yourself knives of stone, and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.”
2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”
3 He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
4 Now this is the reason for the second circumcision: All the people who departed from Egypt of the male gender, all the men fit for war, died in the desert during the very long wandering way;
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 all these had been circumcised. But the people who were born in the desert,
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 throughout the forty years of the journey in the very broad wilderness, were uncircumcised, until the ones who had not listened to the voice of the Lord were consumed. For he had sworn to them before, that he would not reveal to them the land flowing with milk and honey.
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 The sons of these ones succeeded to the place of their fathers, and they were circumcised by Joshua. For they were uncircumcised, just as they had been born, and no one had circumcised them along the way.
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 Then, after they were all circumcised, they remained in the same place of the camp until they were healed.
8 When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
9 And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away from you the disgrace of Egypt.” And the name of that place was called Gilgal, even to the present day.
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 And the sons of Israel stayed at Gilgal, and they kept the Passover, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of Jericho.
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 And on the following day, they ate unleavened bread from the grain of the land, and cooked grain, of the same year.
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 And the manna ceased after they ate from the grain of the land. And the sons of Israel no longer made use of that food. Instead, they ate from the grain of the present year, from the land of Canaan.
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 And when Joshua was in the field of the city of Jericho, he lifted up his eyes, and he saw a man standing opposite him, holding a drawn sword. And he went to him and said, “Are you one of ours, or one of our adversaries?”
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 And he responded: “Not at all. Instead, I am a prince of the host of the Lord, and now I have arrived.”
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 Joshua fell prone on the ground. And reverencing, he said, “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.
16 He said: “Remove your shoes from your feet. For the place on which you stand is holy.” And Joshua did just as he had been commanded.
16 Not in this translation
Cross references (15)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joshua 2:9–11; Numbers 13:29; 1 Kings 10:5; Ezekiel 16:3; Judges 11:23
- 2 Deuteronomy 30:6; Deuteronomy 10:16; Exodus 4:25; Genesis 17:10–14; Romans 4:11
- 3 Matthew 16:24; Genesis 17:23–27
- 4 1 Corinthians 10:5; Deuteronomy 2:16; Numbers 26:64–65; Deuteronomy 2:14; Numbers 14:22
- 5 Matthew 12:7; Hosea 6:6–7; Romans 2:26; 1 Corinthians 7:19; Galatians 6:15
- 6 Numbers 14:23; Deuteronomy 2:14; Hebrews 3:11; Deuteronomy 1:3; Exodus 3:8
- 7 Numbers 14:31; Deuteronomy 1:39
- 8 Genesis 34:25
- 9 1 Samuel 17:26; Joshua 4:19; Genesis 34:14; Joshua 24:14; Leviticus 24:14
- 10 Exodus 12:6; Numbers 9:1–5; Ezekiel 12:3; Ezekiel 12:6–16
- 11 Leviticus 23:14; Leviticus 23:6; Exodus 12:18–20; Exodus 13:6–7
- 12 Exodus 16:35; Deuteronomy 6:10–11; Nehemiah 9:20–21; Proverbs 13:22; Revelation 7:16–17
- 13 Genesis 18:2; Numbers 22:23; Numbers 22:31; 1 Chronicles 21:16–17; 1 Chronicles 21:30
- 14 Isaiah 55:4; Genesis 17:3; Exodus 23:20–22; Revelation 19:10–14; Acts 10:25–26
- 15 Exodus 3:5; Acts 7:32–33; 2 Peter 1:18
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