1 All the kings of the Amorites west of the Jordan and all the kings of the Canaanites along the sea heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan in front of the children of Israel until they had crossed. Their hearts melted, and they had no more spirit to face the children of Israel.
2 At that time the LORD told Joshua, "Make knives of flint and circumcise the children of Israel once again, a second time."
3 So Joshua made knives of flint and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
4 This is why Joshua circumcised them: all the males who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt.
5 All the people who came out had been circumcised, but none of those born in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt had been circumcised.
6 The children of Israel had wandered in the wilderness for forty years, until the whole nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, had died off, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD. The LORD had sworn to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
7 It was their sons, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the journey.
8 After the whole nation had been circumcised, they stayed where they were in the camp until they had recovered.
9 And the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled off from you the disgrace of Egypt." That is why the place has been called Gilgal to this day.
10 While they were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the children of Israel celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.
11 On the day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.
12 The manna stopped the day after they ate from the produce of the land. The children of Israel had no more manna; that year they ate the crops of the land of Canaan.
13 Once when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. Joshua went up to him and asked, "Are you on our side or on the side of our enemies?"
14 "No," he replied, "but I have now come as commander of the army of the LORD." Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in worship and said to him, "What does my lord have to say to his servant?"
15 The commander of the LORD's army replied, "Take the sandal off your foot, because the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.