Josué 5:5

5 Todos ellos habían sido circuncidados, pero no los que nacieron en el desierto mientras el pueblo peregrinaba después de salir de Egipto.

Josué 5:5 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 5:5

Now all the people that came out were circumcised
All that came out of Egypt, and males, were circumcised, whether under or above twenty years of age; for though it is possible all were circumcised before they came out of Egypt, which favours the opinion of Dr. Lightfoot, that they might be circumcised during the three nights' darkness of the Egyptians, when they could take no advantage of it, as Levi and Simeon did of the Shechemites; and which seems more probable than that it should be on the night they came out of Egypt, when many must have been unfit for travelling, and seems preferable to that of their being circumcised at Mount Sinai, which was a year after their coming out of Egypt:

but all the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way, as
they came forth out of Egypt, [them] they had not circumcised;
the reasons of which neglect; (See Gill on Joshua 5:2). The phrase, "by the way", seems to point at the true reason of it, at least to countenance the reason there given, which was on account of their journey; that is, their stay at any place being uncertain and precarious; so the Jews say {z}, because of the affliction or trouble of journeying, the Israelites did not circumcise their children. This is to be understood of all males only born in the wilderness, they only being the subjects of circumcision.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Pirke Eliezer, ut supra. (c. 29.)

Josué 5:5 In-Context

3 Así que Josué hizo los cuchillos y circuncidó a los varones israelitas en la colina de Aralot.

4 Realizó la ceremonia porque los israelitas en edad militar que habían salido de Egipto ya habían muerto en el desierto.

5 Todos ellos habían sido circuncidados, pero no los que nacieron en el desierto mientras el pueblo peregrinaba después de salir de Egipto.

6 Dios les había prometido a sus antepasados que les daría una tierra donde abundan la leche y la miel. Pero los israelitas que salieron de Egipto no obedecieron el SEÑOR, y por ello él juró que no verían esa tierra. En consecuencia, deambularon por el desierto durante cuarenta años, hasta que murieron todos los varones en edad militar.

7 A los hijos de estos, a quienes Dios puso en lugar de ellos, los circuncidó Josué, pues no habían sido circuncidados durante el viaje.