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          DASV: Joshua 5    

1 When all the Amorite kings who were on the west side of the
Jordan River, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were
by the Mediterranean sea, heard how the LORD had dried up
the waters of the Jordan River before the Israelites while
they crossed over, their hearts melted and they lost their
courage because of the Israelites.
2 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and
circumcise the Israelites a second time."
3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites
at Gibeath-haaraloth (the Hill of the Foreskins).
4 This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: all the men who
came out of Egypt, all the men old enough for war, died in
the wilderness on the journey, after they came out of Egypt.
5 For all the men who left were circumcised, but all the people
born in the wilderness on the journey after they came out
of Egypt had not been circumcised.
6 For the Israelites traveled for forty years in the wilderness,
until all the nation, those old enough for war who had come
out of Egypt had died, because they refused to obey the voice
of the LORD. For the LORD had sworn that he would not let
them see the land he promised to their forefathers that
he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
7 So it was their children, whom he raised up to replace
them that Joshua circumcised for they were uncircumcised
because they had not been circumcised along the way.
8 When they had completed the circumcising of the whole nation,
they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.

9 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away
the reproach of Egypt from off you." That is why the name
of that place was called Gilgal (to roll) to this day.
10 While the Israelites camped at Gilgal on the plains
of Jericho, they kept the Passover on the evening of the
fourteenth day of the month.
11 They ate the produce of the land on the very next day
after the Passover, unleavened bread and roasted grain.
12 The manna stopped on the day they ate the produce
of the land, there was no longer any manna for the
Israelites but they ate from the crops of Canaan that year.

13 When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a
man standing in front of him with his drawn sword in his hand.
Joshua approached him and asked, "Are you for us or
for our enemies?"
14 He replied, "Neither, but I have now come as the
commander of the army of the LORD." Then Joshua fell
with his face to the ground, worshiped and said to him,
"What does my lord want to say to his servant?"
15 The commander of LORD's army replied, "Take your sandals
off your feet; for the place you are standing is holy."
So Joshua did it.

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