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OET-RV by cross-referenced section JOS 5:2

JOS 5:2–5:10 ©

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Circumcising the males and celebrating ‘pass-over’ at Gilgal

Jos 5:2–10

5:2 Circumcising the males and celebrating ‘pass-over’ at Gilgal

2At that time, Yahweh told Yehoshua, “Make yourself flint knives and again circumcise the male Israelis.” 3So 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 Egypt and who were old enough to join the army had been circumcised but had died in the wilderness since then,[ref] 5and because all the boys who’d been born while they were in the wilderness after they’d left Egypt hadn’t been circumcised. 6The Israelis have spent forty years moving around the wilderness until the last of those men who’d left Egypt 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 flowing with milk and honey. 7It was the sons of those people that Yehoshua had circumcised this time because they hadn’t been circumcised on the way.)

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

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


5:9 The name ‘Gilgal’ (‘גִּלְגָּל’, ‘circle’) sounds like ‘galal’ (‘גַּלַל’, ‘roll’).


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Num 14:28-35:

28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

Exo 12:1-13:

12:1 Meal preparations to avoid death

12Then Yahweh told Mosheh and Aharon Egypt,[ref] 2“This month is to become the beginning of the months for you all—from now on it will be the first month of the new year. 3Assemble the people and tell them that on the tenth of this month, every man who’s the head of the household must select a lamb or young goat for his family. 4But if the household’s too small to cook a whole animal, then neighbours can combine and share—budgeting on how much each person eats. 5You all can choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a perfect, one-year-old male—without any defects. 6You all must take special care of those animals until the fourteenth day of this month, then every Israeli household will slaughter their animal early that evening. 7Then they must take some of the blood and put it on both doorposts and on the lintel of the houses that they’ll be in when they eat it. 8They must roast them on the fire and eat the meat that night, along with flat bread and bitter herbs. 9Don’t eat any of the meat raw and don’t boil it in water—it must be roasted over the fire with its head, legs, and internal organs. 10Nothing must be left by morning—anything that’s not eaten must be burnt in the fire. 11And this is how you all must eat it: with your belts fastened on your waists, your sandals on your feet, and your staffs in your hands. You all must eat it in a hurry. It is the Passover to Yahweh.

12Then during that night, I will move throughout Egypt and I will kill all the oldest malesboth people and animals. I will execute judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh. 13That blood on the doorposts and lintel will be your sign on the houses which you are all in. I will see the blood and will pass over above you all, and the plague won’t affect you all with destruction as I strike against Egypt.


12:1-13: Lev 23:5; Num 9:1-5; 28:16; Deu 16:1-2.