And this [is] the cause why Joshua did circumcise,.... Or the reason of the command given him to circumcise the children of Israel at this time, namely, what follows:all the people that came out of Egypt [that were] males, [even] all the men of war; meaning such that were twenty years old, and upwards:died in the wilderness, by the way, after they came out of Egypt; not directly, but in a course of forty years, as they journeyed through the wilderness; this is to be understood with an exception of Joshua, Caleb, Eleazar, &c.
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Joshua 5:4
Joshua 5:4
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