A reading from the Book of Joshua.

As soon as all the kings of the Amarites who are beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings

of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of

the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over.

Their hearts melted, and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people

of Israel.

At that time the Lord said to Joshua, make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel

a second time.

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibbyeth Haaruloth.

And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them.

All the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness

on the way after they had come out of Egypt. Though all the people who came out had been circumcised,

yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness

after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness

until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt,

perished because they did not obey the voice of the Lord.

The Lord swore to them that he would not let them see the land,

that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us,

a land flowing with milk and honey.

So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place that Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised

on the way. When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their

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