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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Joshua 5 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/joshua/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/joshua/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Joshua 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joshua/4.htm" title="Joshua 4">◄</a> Joshua 5 <a href="../joshua/6.htm" title="Joshua 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/joshua/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The New Generation Circumcised</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>As soon as 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 that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>At that time the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Gibeath-haaraloth means the hill of the foreskins">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew for to roll">b</a></sup></span> to this day.</p> <p class="heading">First Passover in Canaan</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.</p> <p class="heading">The Commander of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s Army</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or and paid homage">c</a></sup></span> and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the commander of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <i class="catch-word">Gibeath-haaraloth</i> means <i>the hill of the foreskins</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <i class="catch-word">Gilgal</i> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>to roll</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Or <i>and paid homage</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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