The Book of Joshua - Verse by Verse

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Joshua 4:22 then you shall let your children know, 'Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.'

 

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Joshua 4:23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,

 

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Joshua 4:24 so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty; that you may fear the LORD your God for ever."

 

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Joshua 5:1 When all the kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites that 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 heart melted, and there was no longer any spirit in them, because of the people of Israel.

 

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Joshua 5:2 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the people of Israel again the second time."

 

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Joshua 5:3 So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the people of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

 

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Joshua 5:4 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 on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt.

 

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Joshua 5:5 Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people that were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

 

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Joshua 5:6 For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, perished, because they did not hearken to the voice of the LORD; to them the LORD swore that he would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

 

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Joshua 5:7 So it was their children, whom he raised up in their stead, that Joshua circumcised; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

 

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Joshua 5:8 When the circumcising of all the nation was done, they remained in their places in the camp till they were healed.

 

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Joshua 5:9 And the LORD said to Joshua, "This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.

 

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Joshua 5:10 While the people of Israel were encamped in Gilgal they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.

 

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Joshua 5:11 And on the morrow after the passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.

 

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Joshua 5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow, when they ate of the produce of the land; and the people of Israel had manna no more, but ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

 

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Joshua 5:13 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood before him with his drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"

 

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Joshua 5:14 And he said, "No; but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, "What does my lord bid his servant?"

 

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Joshua 5:15 And the commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Put off your shoes from your feet; for the place where you stand is holy." And Joshua did so.

 

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Joshua 6:1 Now Jericho was shut up from within and from without because of the people of Israel; none went out, and none came in.

 

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Joshua 6:2 And the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have given into your hand Jericho, with its king and mighty men of valor.