CHAPTER 5
1 Therefore after that all the kings of Amorites heard, that dwelled over Jordan at the west coast, and all the kings of Canaan, that wielded the nigh places of the great sea, that the Lord had dried the flowings of Jordan before the sons of Israel, till they passed over, the heart of them failed, and the spirit dwelled not in them, dreading the entering of the sons of Israel.
2 In that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make to thee knives of stone, and circumcise thou the sons of Israel the second time.
3 Joshua did those things which the Lord commanded, and he circumcised the sons of Israel in the hill of prepuces.
4 And this is the cause of the second circumcision; all the people of male kind, that went out of Egypt, all the men fighters of them, were dead in desert by the full long compasses of way,
5 the which all were circumcised. But the other people that was born in desert by forty years, in the way of the full broad wilderness, was un-circumcised,
6 till they were wasted, that heard not the voice of the Lord, and to which he swore before, that he should show to them the land flowing with milk and honey.
7 The sons of them came afterward into the place of [the] fathers, and they were circumcised of Joshua; which, as they were born, were in prepuce, neither any man had circumcised them in the way.
8 And after that they all were circumcised, they dwelled in the same place of their tents, till they were healed.
9 And the Lord said to Joshua, Today I have taken away from you the shame of Egypt. And the name of the place was called Gilgal*, unto this present day.
10 And the sons of Israel dwelled in Gilgal, and made pask in the four-teenth day of the month at eventide, in the field places of Jericho;
11 and they ate of the fruits of the land in the tother day, therf loaves, and pottage of the same year, either corns singed, and rubbed in the hand.
12 And manna failed after that they ate of the fruits of the land; and the sons of Israel used no more that meat, but they ate of the fruits of present year of the land of Canaan.
13 And when Joshua was in the field of the city of Jericho, he raised up his eyes, and saw a man standing against him, and holding a drawn sword; and Joshua went out to him, and said, Art thou with us, either our adversary?
14 To whom he answered, Nay, but I am prince of the host of the Lord, and now I come. Joshua felled low to the earth, and worshipped, and said, What speaketh my Lord to his servant?
15 He said, Unlace thy shoes from thy feet, for the place, in which thou standest, is holy. And Joshua did, as it was commanded to him.
* CHAPTER 5:9 ‘Gilgal’ sounds like the Hebrew for ‘removed’ or ‘taken away’. Good News Bible