Circumcising the people at Gilgal
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📚And it came about, when all the kings of the Amorites✭ who were on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were near the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, that their heart melted✭ and there was no longer any spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.2 📚✭At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make sharp knives for yourself, and circumcise the children of Israel the second time”. 3 📚And Joshua made sharp knives for himself, and circumcised the children of Israel at the Hill of the Foreskins.
4 📚✭And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males among the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, died in the desert on the way, after they came out of Egypt. 5 📚Now all the people who came out were circumcised, but they had not circumcised all the people who were born in the desert on the way after they came out of Egypt. 6 📚For the children of Israel walked about forty years in the desert until all the men of war among the people who came out of Egypt had perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD. The LORD swore that he would not show them the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey. 7 📚✭Their children are the ones he raised up in their place; Joshua circumcised them, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way. 8 📚And it came about when they had finished circumcising all the people that they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
9 📚✭And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you”. Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.
Keeping the Passover, ceasing of the manna
10 📚✭And the children of Israel camped in Gilgal and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. 11 📚And they ate the old grain of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened✭ cakes and parched grain✭ on the same day. 12 📚And the manna ceased✭ on the day after they ate the old grain of the land, and the children of Israel did not have manna any more; but they ate the produce of the land of Canaan that year.
The “Commander” of the army of the LORD
13 📚And this occurred when Joshua was near Jericho: he raised his eyes and looked, and a man✭ appeared standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went up to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
14 📚✭And he said, “No, but I have now come as captain of the army of the LORD”.
And Joshua prostrated himself to the ground and worshipped, and said to him, “What does my Lord say to his servant?”
15 📚✭And the captain of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Remove your sandal from your foot, for the place you are standing on is holy”. And Joshua did so.