The Circumcision at Gilgal (JOS 5:2-12)

[5:2] Then the Lord told Joshua, “Make some knives out of flint and circumcise the Israelites.”

[5:3] So Joshua did as the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the Israelites at a place called Circumcision Hill.

[5:7] The sons of these men had never been circumcised, and it was this new generation that Joshua circumcised.

[5:8] After the circumcision was completed, the whole nation stayed in the camp until the wounds had healed.

[5:9] The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have removed from you the disgrace of being slaves in Egypt.” That is why the place was named Gilgal, the name it still has.

[5:10] While the Israelites were camping at Gilgal on the plain near Jericho, they observed Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.

[5:11] The next day was the first time they ate food grown in Canaan: roasted grain and bread made without yeast.

[5:12] The manna stopped falling then, and the Israelites no longer had any. From that time on they ate food grown in Canaan.

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