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1 And it came to pass,
when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of
Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by
the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before
the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart
melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children
of Israel.
2 At that time the LORD said unto
Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of
Israel the second time.
3 And Joshua made him sharp knives,
and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
4 And this is the cause why
Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were
males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way,
after they came out of Egypt.
5 Now all the people that came out
were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the
wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they
had not circumcised.
6 For the children of Israel walked
forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of
war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the
voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them
the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a
land that floweth with milk and honey.
7 And their children, whom he
raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were
uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.
8 And it came to pass, when they had
done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the
camp, till they were whole.
9 And the LORD said unto Joshua,
This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore
the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
10 And the children of
Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of
the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
11 And they did eat of the old corn
of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and
parched corn in the selfsame day.
12 And the manna ceased on the
morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the
children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the
land of Canaan that year.
13 And it came to pass,
when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and,
behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his
hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us,
or for our adversaries?
14 And he said, Nay; but as
captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face
to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto
his servant?
15 And the captain of the LORD’S
host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place
whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
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