The wilderness generation

4And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they came out of Egypt.

5For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness on the way as they came out from Egypt had not been circumcised.

6For the sons of Israel had walked in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation—the men of war who came out of Egypt—had come to an end, because they had not listened to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh had sworn to them that he would not let them see the land that Yahweh had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

7And Joshua circumcised their sons, whom he had raised up in their place, because they were uncircumcised, for they had not circumcised them on the way.