Joshua 5:3

Bishop's Bible

And Iosuah made him sharpe kniues, and circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskinnes.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelite men at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Yisra'el at the hill of `Aralot.

King James Version
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Lexham English Bible
So Joshua made knives of flint, and he circumcised the Israelites at the hill of the foreskins.

English Standard Version
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

New Century Version
So Joshua made knives from flint stones and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth.

New English Translation
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.

Amplified Bible
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

New American Standard Bible
So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ioshua made him sharpe kniues & circumcised the sonnes of Israel in the hill of the foreskinnes.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Contemporary English Version
Joshua made the knives, then circumcised those men and boys at Haaraloth Hill.

Complete Jewish Bible
So Y'hoshua made himself knives of flint and circumcised the people of Isra'el at Giv‘at-Ha‘Aralot [the hill of foreskins].

Darby Translation
And Joshua made him stone-knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of Araloth.

Easy-to-Read Version
So Joshua made knives from flint rocks and circumcised the men of Israel at Gibeath Haaraloth.

George Lamsa Translation
So Joshua made a flint knife for himself, and circumcised the children of Israel the second time at the Hill of the Uncircumcised.

Good News Translation
So Joshua did as the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the Israelites at a place called Circumcision Hill.

Literal Translation
And Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then Iosua made him knyues of stone, and circumcysed the childre of Israel vpon the toppe of the foreßkynnes.

American Standard Version
And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Bible in Basic English
So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

King James Version (1611)
And Ioshua made him sharpe kniues, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskinnes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua made sharp knives of stone, and circumcised the children of Israel at the place called the "Hill of Foreskins."

English Revised Version
And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Josue dide tho thingis whiche the Lord comaundide, and he circumside the sones of Israel in the `hil of prepucies.

Young's Literal Translation
and Joshua maketh for him knives of flint, and circumciseth the sons of Israel at the height of the foreskins.

Update Bible Version
And Joshua made for himself knives of flint, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

World English Bible
Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

New King James Version
So Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. [fn]

New Living Translation
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

New Life Bible
So Joshua made knives of hard stone. Then he had the sons of Israel go through this religious act at Gibeath-haaraloth.

New Revised Standard
So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath-haaraloth.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Joshua made him knives of flint, - and circumcised the sons of Israel, at the Hill of Foreskins.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.

Revised Standard Version
So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the people of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Contextual Overview

¹ And whe al the kinges of ye Amorites which are beyonde Iordane westwarde, and al the kynges of the Chanaanites which were by the sea, heard howe ye Lorde had dried vp the waters of Iordane before the chyldren of Israel vntill they were gone ouer, their heartes faynted for feare, and there was no spirite in them any more for the presence of the children of Israel. ² That same time the Lorde saide vnto Iosuah: Make thee sharp kniues, and go to agayne and circumcise the children of Israel the seconde time. ³ And Iosuah made him sharpe kniues, and circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskinnes. ⁴ And this is the cause why Iosuah circumcised all the people, euen the males that came out of Egypt: because that al the men of warre died in the wildernes by ye way, after they came out of Egypt. ⁵ For all the people that came out, were circumcised: but al the people that were borne in the wildernes by the way after they came out of Egypt were not circumcised. ⁶ For the chyldren of Israel walked fourtie yeres in the wildernesse, till al ye people of ye men of warre that came out of Egypt were consumed, because they hearkened not vnto the voyce of the Lorde: Unto whom the Lorde sware, that he woulde not shewe them ye lande which the Lorde sware vnto their fathers that he woulde geue vs, euen a lande that floweth with mylke & hony. ⁷ And their children whom he set vp in their steede, them Iosuah circumcised, for they were vncircumcised: because they circumcised them not by the way. ⁸ And when they had circumcised al the people, they abode in their places in the campe tyll they were whole. ⁹ And the Lorde sayde vnto Iosuah: This day haue I taken away the shame of Egypt from you: wherefore the name of the same place is called Gilgal, vnto this day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua: Genesis 17:23-27, Matthew 16:24

the hill of the foreskins: or, Gibeah haaraloth

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:11 - the flesh Exodus 4:25 - a sharp stone 1 Samuel 18:25 - foreskins

Cross-References

Genesis 4:25
Adam knewe his wyfe agayne, and she bare a sonne, and called his name Seth: For God [sayde she] hath appoynted me another seede in steade of Habel whom Cain slewe.

Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the daye of their creation.

Genesis 5:3
And Adam lyued an hundreth and thirtie yeres, and begate a sonne in his owne lykenesse, after his image, & called his name Seth.

Genesis 5:14
And all the dayes of Kenan were nine hundreth and ten yeres, and he dyed.

Genesis 5:16
And againe Mahalaleel liued after he begate Iered eyght hundreth & thirtie yeres, and begate sonnes & daughters.

Job 14:4
Who can make it cleane that commeth of an vncleane thing? no bodye.

Job 25:4
But how may a man compared vnto God, be iustified? or how can he be cleane that is borne of a woman?

Psalms 51:5
Beholde, I was ingendred in iniquitie: and in sinne my mother conceaued me.

Luke 1:35
And the Angel aunswered, & saide vnto her: The holy ghost shall come vpon thee, & the power of the hyest shall ouershadowe thee. Therefore also that holy thyng whiche shalbe borne, shalbe called the sonne of God.

John 3:6
That which is borne of the fleshe, is fleshe: and that which is borne of the spirite, is spirite.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel,.... Not that Joshua circumcised them himself, any more than he made the knives himself, but he ordered both to be done, and took care that they were done. And as any that had skill might make the knives, so might any circumcise; circumcision was not restrained to any order of men, not to the priests and Levites, but any might perform it; so that though the number to be circumcised was great, it might soon be finished: and this was done

at the hill of the foreskins; as the place was afterward called from hence; these being heaped up one upon another, made a hill of them, as the Jews say y, being covered with dust. This circumcision performed by Joshua, or his orders, was typical of the spiritual circumcision without hands, which those that believe in Jesus, the antitype of Joshua, partake of.

y Pirke Eliezer, ut supra. (c. 29.) Jarchi in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The hill of the foreskins - i. e. the hill where the foreskins, the emblem of all worldly and carnal affections, were buried. (Compare Colossians 2:11-13; Colossians 3:1-6.)