2 So at that time, the Lord said to Joshua: “Make for yourself knives of stone, and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.”

3 He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

4 Now this is the reason for the second circumcision: All the people who departed from Egypt of the male gender, all the men fit for war, died in the desert during the very long wandering way;

5 all these had been circumcised. But the people who were born in the desert,

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