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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.

And this is the cause {H1697} why Joshua {H3091} did circumcise {H4135}: All the people {H5971} that came out {H3318} of Egypt {H4714}, that were males {H2145}, even all the men {H582} of war {H4421}, died {H4191} in the wilderness {H4057} by the way {H1870}, after they came out {H3318} of Egypt {H4714}.

The reason Y'hoshua circumcised was that all the people who had left Egypt who were males, all the fighting men, had died in the desert along the way after leaving Egypt.

Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.

And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.

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Cross-References

  • 1 Corinthians 10:5 (3 votes)

    But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

  • Deuteronomy 2:16 (3 votes)

    So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

  • Numbers 26:64 (3 votes)

    But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

  • Numbers 26:65 (3 votes)

    For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

  • Deuteronomy 2:14 (2 votes)

    And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, [was] thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the LORD sware unto them.

  • Hebrews 3:17 (2 votes)

    But with whom was he grieved forty years? [was it] not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

  • Hebrews 3:19 (2 votes)

    So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.