Joshua 5:4 (WEB)
This 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.
Fathers and councils · 1
“…Moses (that is, not through the Law’s discipline), but through Joshua (that is, through the new law’s grace), after our circumcision with “a knife of rock” (that is, with Christ’s precepts, for Christ is in many ways and figures predicted as a rock); therefore the man who was being prepared to act as images of…” — editor's note: See Josh. v. 2–9, especially in LXX. Comp. the margin in the Eng. ver. in ver. 2, “flint knives,” and Wordsworth in loc., who refers to Ex. iv. 25, for which…
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Cross-references · 3
Numbers 22:5 and Joshua 5:4 share the same wording (10 words).
Deuteronomy 4:45 and Joshua 5:4 share the same wording (9 words).
Deuteronomy 4:46 and Joshua 5:4 share the same wording (9 words).