Joshua 5:5

“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.”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations for Joshua 5:5

Now all the people that came out, were circumcised, but all the people that were borne in the wildernesse by the way, as they came foorth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
- New American Standard Version (1995)

For 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, they had not circumcised.
- American Standard Version (1901)

All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.
- Basic English Bible

Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness on the way, after they came out of Egypt, [them] had they not circumcised.
- Darby Bible

Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in the desert,
- Douay-Rheims Bible

For 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, they had not circumcised.
- English Revised Version

For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
- World English Bible

Bible Commentary for Joshua 5:5

Wesley's Notes for Joshua 5:5


5:5 Them - Either their parents, or the rulers of Israel, by Divine permission and indulgence; because they were now on a journey, in which case the passover also might be neglected, #Numb 9:10|,13. Rather, it was a continued token of God's displeasure against them, for their unbelief and murmuring: a token that they should never have the benefit of that promise, whereof circumcision was the seal.


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