Joshua 5:2-9

2At that time Adonai said to Joshua, “Make yourself flint knives and circumcise again Bnei-Yisrael a second time.”

3So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised Bnei-Yisrael at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

4Now this is the reason why Joshua circumcised: all the people that came out of Egypt who were males—all the men of war—had died in the wilderness along the way after they came out of Egypt.

5Though all the people that came out were circumcised, none of the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had been circumcised.

6For Bnei-Yisrael walked 40 years in the wilderness, until all the nation’s men of war who came out of Egypt died out, because they had not listened to the voice of Adonai. To them Adonai had sworn that He would never let them see the land which Adonai had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

7But He raised up their children in their place. Joshua circumcised them, for they were uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.

8Now it came to pass after they had finished circumcising the entire nation, they remained in their places in the camp until they recovered.

9Then Adonai said to Joshua, “This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place has been called Gilgal to this day.