¹When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward , and all the kings of the Canaanites , who were by the sea , heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over , their heart melted , and there was no more spirit in them , because of the children of Israel .

²At that time , the LORD said to Joshua , “Make flint knives , and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time .”

³Joshua made himself flint knives , and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins .

⁴This is the reason Joshua circumcised them : all the people who came out of Egypt , who were males , even all the men of war , died in the wilderness along the way , after they came out of Egypt .

⁵For 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 .

⁶For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation , even the men of war who came out of Egypt , were consumed , because they didn’t listen to the LORD ’s voice . The LORD swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us , a land flowing with milk and honey .

⁷Their children , whom he raised up in their place , were circumcised by Joshua , for they were uncircumcised , because they had not circumcised them on the way .

⁸When they were done circumcising the whole nation , they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed .

⁹The LORD said to Joshua , “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you .” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal to this day .[#5:9 “Gilgal” sounds like the Hebrew for “roll.”]

¹⁰The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal . They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho .

¹¹They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover , in the same day .

¹²The manna ceased on the next day , after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more , but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year .

¹³When Joshua was by Jericho , he lifted up his eyes and looked , and behold , a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand . Joshua went to him and said to him , “Are you for us , or for our enemies ?”

¹⁴He said , “No ; but I have come now as commander of the LORD ’s army .”

Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped , and asked him , “What does my lord say to his servant ?”

¹⁵The prince of the LORD ’s army said to Joshua , “Take off your sandals , for the place on which you stand is holy .” Joshua did so .