Chapter 5
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And it was when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard what the LORD had done in drying up the waters of the Jordan from before the sons of Israel until they had crossed, that their heart melted, and there was no longer spirit in them because of the sons of Israel.
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At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives for yourself and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time."
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And Joshua made flint knives for himself and circumcised the sons of Israel at the Hill of the Foreskins.
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And this is the matter which Joshua circumcised all the people, the males, all the men of the warfare who had died in the wilderness on the way in their going out from Egypt.
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For all the people who went out were circumcised, and all the people born in the wilderness on the way when they went out from Egypt—they were not circumcised.
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for forty years the sons of Israel walked in the wilderness until all the nation, the men of the warfare, the ones going out from Egypt, was finished—which they did not obey in the voice of the LORD, which the LORD swore to them not to cause them to see the land which the LORD swore to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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And their sons, whom he raised up in their place, Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they did not circumcise them on the way.
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And when all the nation had finished being circumcised, they stayed in the camp under them until they revived.
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And the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from upon you." And he called the name of that place Gilgal until this day.
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The sons of Israel encamped at Gilgal, and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
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And they ate from the produce of the earth on the day after the Passover: unleavened cakes and parched grain.
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The manna ceased the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, and there was no more manna for the sons of Israel, but they ate of the harvest of the land of Canaan that year.