Today is the 12th day of April. Welcome to the Daily Audio Bible.

I am Brian. It is wonderful to be around the Global Campfire with you today.

Every day. It's wonderful. This is the best place to be in the world for me.

Around the Global Campfire together, immersing ourselves in the Scriptures together.

What an incredible journey we are on.

Our journey in the Old Testament has led us all the way into the Book of Joshua.

As we've moved into the Book of Joshua, we've gotten to do something that we've been waiting to do since Genesis.

That is to go into the Promised Land.

We crossed into the Promised Land yesterday with the children of Israel.

That is where we find ourselves. Just on the other side of the Jordan River, actually in the Promised Land.

Memorial stones were placed so that the children of Israel would be able to come back to this spot and remember.

What happened there? What God did there. We talked about that yesterday.

And memorializing our own lives.

And so here we are in the Promised Land.

Let's take the next step forward and see what happens next.

We're reading from the New Living Translation this week, Joshua, chapter 5, verse 1 through 7, verse 15 today.

When all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan, and all the Canaanite kings who lived along the Mediterranean coast,

heard how the Lord had dried up the Jordan River so the people of Israel could cross, they lost heart and were paralyzed with fear because of them.

At that time the Lord told Joshua, make Flint knives and circumcise this second generation of Israelites.

So Joshua made Flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibiap Haralot.

Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness.

Those who left Egypt had all been circumcised but none of those born after the Exodus during the years in the wilderness had been circumcised.

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