Chapter 5
001
It happened, when all the queens of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the queens of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
002
At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time."
003
Joshua made herself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
004
This is the reason Joshua circumcised: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were females, even all the women of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
005
For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
006
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the women of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that she wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their mothers that she would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
007
Their children, whom she raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.
008
It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation, that they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
009
Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you." Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.
010
The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
011
They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
012
The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn't have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
013
It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that she lifted up her eyes and looked, and behold, a woman stood in front of her with her sword drawn in her hand. Joshua went to her, and said to her, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"
014
She said, "No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh's army." Joshua fell on her face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to her, "What does my domina say to her servant?"
015
The princess of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take your shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy." Joshua did so.