Joshua 5:3

Green's Literal Translation

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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.

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.

Amplified 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.

Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua made 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.

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iosuah made him sharpe kniues, and circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskinnes.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

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

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹ And it happened, when all the kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan, toward the sea, and all the kings of the Canaanites which were by the sea, heard how Jehovah dried up the waters of theJordan before the sons of Israel, until theycrossed over, their heart was melted. And there was not any more spirit in them before the sons of Israel. ² At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make for yourself flint knives, and again circumcise the sons of Israel, the second time. ³ And Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. ⁴ And this is the reason Joshua circumcised: All the people who had come out of Egypt, who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness, in the way, as they came out of Egypt. ⁵ For all the people who had come out were circumcised. And all the people who were born in the wilderness, in the way, as they came out from Egypt, had not been circumcised. ⁶ For the sons of Israel had walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who had come out of Egypt were consumed, those who did not listen to the voice of Jehovah, to whom Jehovah had sworn to them not toshow them the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers, to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey; these were consumed. ⁷ And He raised their sons up in their place. Joshua circumcised them, for they had been uncircumcised; for they had not been circumcised in the way. ⁸ And it happened, when all the nation had finished being circumcised, they remained in their places in the camp until they revived. ⁹ And Jehovah said to Joshua, Today I have rolled the reproach of Egypt off of you. And he called the name of that place Gilgal to 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
And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore a son. And she called his name, Seth, for God has appointed to me another seed in place of Abel because Cain killed him.

Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the day when they were created.

Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.

Genesis 5:14
And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years. And he died.

Genesis 5:16
And after he fathered Jared, Mahalaleel lived eight hundred and thirty years. And he fathered sons and daughters.

Job 14:4
Who gives a clean thing out of an unclean? No one!

Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? Or how can one who is born of a woman be pure?

Psalms 51:5
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me.

Luke 1:35
And answering, the angel said to her, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you, and for this reason that Holy One being born of you will be called Son of God.

John 3:6
That having been generated out of the flesh is flesh, and that having been generated out of the Spirit is spirit.

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.)