Jos 5:3-9 | ESV | STEP | So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth .

Joshua 5:3-9

3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. ^{▼▼ Gibeath-haaraloth means the hill of the foreskins} 4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: ^ball 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. 5 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. 6 For the people of Israel walked ^cforty 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 Lord; the Lord ^dswore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, ^ea land flowing with milk and honey. 7 So it was ^ftheir children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

8 When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. 9 And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the ^greproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called ^hGilgal ^{▼▼ Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew for to roll} to this day.