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chapter 5
1
Now
when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan westward, and
all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places near the great sea, had
heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children
of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed them, and there remained
no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children of Israel.
2 At that time the Lord said to Josue: Make thee knives
of stone, and circumcise the second time the children of Israel.
3 He did what the Lord had commanded, and he
circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.
4 Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All
the people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war,
died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way.
5 Now these were all circumcised. But the people that
were born in the desert,
6 Luring the forty years of the journey in the wide
wilderness, were uncircumcised: till all they were consumed that had not heard
the voice of the Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that he would not shew
them the land flowing with milk and honey.
7 The children of these succeeded in the place of their
fathers, and were circumcised by Josue: for they were uncircumcised even as
they were born, and no one had circumcised them in the way.
8 Now after they were all circumcised, they remained in
the same place of the camp, until they were healed.
9 And the Lord said to Josue: This day have I taken
away from you the reproach of Egypt. And the name of that place was called
Galgal, until this present day.
10 And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they
kept the phase on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the plains of
Jericho:
11 And they ate on the next day unleavened bread of the
corn of the land, and frumenty of the same year.
12 And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of
the land, neither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they
ate of the corn of the present year of the land of Chanaan.
13 And when Josue was in the field of the city of
Jericho, he lifted up his eyes, and saw a man standing over against him:
holding a drawn sword, and he went to him, and said: Art thou one of ours, or
of our adversaries?
14 And he answered: No: but I am prince of the host of
the Lord, and now I am come.
15 Josue fell on his face to the ground. And
worshipping, add: What saith my lord to his servant?
16 Loose, saith he, thy shoes from off thy feet: for
the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Josue did as was commanded him.
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