2 At that time, Yahweh told Yehoshua (Joshua), “Make yourself flint knives and again circumcise the male Israelis.” 3 So Yehoshua had flint knives made and the male Israelis were circumcised at a place they named ‘The hill of foreskins’. 4 (This was done because all the men who’d left Mitsrayim (Egypt) and who were old enough to join the army had been circumcised but had died in the wilderness since then,[ref] 5 and because all the boys who’d been born while they were in the wilderness after they’d left Mitsrayim hadn’t been circumcised. 6 The Israelis had spent forty years moving around the wilderness until the last of those men who’d left Mitsrayim but hadn’t listened to Yahweh had died. Yahweh had promised not to let them see the land that he’d promised to their ancestors to give them—a land that’s very fertile. 7 It was the sons of those people that Yehoshua had circumcised this time because they hadn’t been circumcised on the way.)

8 After all their males had been circumcised, they remained in that camp until they’d healed up. 9 Then Yahweh told Yehoshua, “Today I’ve rolled away the disgrace of Mitsrayim from you,” and that place is named Gilgal[fn] until this day.

10 In the evening of the fourth day that the people had been camped at Gilgal there on the plains near Yeriho (Jericho), they celebrated the ‘pass-over’.[ref]