Joshua 5:4 BBE

²  At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

³  So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

⁴  And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.

⁵  All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.

⁶  For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.