Joshua 5:3

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

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Gilgal, near Jericho on the west side of the Jordan in Canaan, was Israel’s first camp after crossing from the east; there Joshua circumcised the wilderness generation at Gibeath-haar

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Joshua 5:3 mentions Canaan, Egypt, Gibeath-haaraloth, Gilgal, Great Sea, Jericho and Jordan.

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