Joshua 5:4

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

when your fathers tempted me, tested me, and saw my work.

With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness.

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

He gave him the covenant of circumcision. So Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day. Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob became the father of the twelve patriarchs.

Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

They went and came to Moses, to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, to the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word to them and to all the congregation. They showed them the fruit of the land.

Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were counted of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have complained against me,

Your children shall be wanderers in the wilderness forty years, and shall bear your prostitution, until your dead bodies are consumed in the wilderness.

even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.

It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea.

We traveled from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, by the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as Yahweh our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.

So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They won’t enter into my rest.”

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good with which I said I would benefit them.

“ ‘ “But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

However with most of them, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you. Every male among you shall be circumcised.

You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.

Only on this condition will we consent to you. If you will be as we are, that every male of you be circumcised,

When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Up, follow after the men. When you overtake them, ask them, ‘Why have you rewarded evil for good?

Then Zipporah took a flint, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet; and she said, “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

When the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don’t know what has become of him.”

Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”

Everyone who keeps approaching Yahweh’s tabernacle, dies! Will we all perish?”

The children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month. The people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died there, and was buried there.

But among these there was not a man of them who were counted by Moses and Aaron the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.

‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,

Yahweh’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done evil in Yahweh’s sight was consumed.

So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you remained.

The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.

Moreover Yahweh’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiff-necked.

Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.

At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make flint knives, and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time.”

When the Jews who lived by them came, they said to us ten times from all places, “Wherever you turn, they will attack us.”

Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel,

Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”

For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

Don’t harden your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

but gave in to craving in the desert, and tested God in the wasteland.

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

The Righteous One considers the house of the wicked, and brings the wicked to ruin.

You see many things, but don’t observe. His ears are open, but he doesn’t listen.

Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

I will purge out from among you the rebels and those who disobey me. I will bring them out of the land where they live, but they shall not enter into the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”

Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’ ”

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’ ”

He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

For a period of about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

We maintain therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

How then was it counted? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and don’t please God, and are contrary to all men,

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’ ”

“You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.