Josué 5:8

8 Y sucedió que cuando terminaron de circuncidar a toda la nación, permanecieron en sus lugares en el campamento hasta que sanaron.

Josué 5:8 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 5:8

And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the
people
Which seems as if it was done in one day, even on the same day they passed over Jordan, and came to Gilgal; though Bishop Usher

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 thinks it was the day following; and so the Jews ^F2 say it was on the eleventh of Nisan:

that they abode in their places in the camp till they were whole:
till the wound made by circumcision was healed; now as it was on the tenth day they passed over Jordan, and came to Gilgal, where they were circumcised, there were three entire days between that and the fourteenth, when they kept the passover; during which time they kept within their tents in the camp, being unfit to move from thence, for on the third day of circumcision they were usually sore, ( Genesis 34:25 ) ; but being well on the fourth, were able to attend the passover. As the providence of God greatly appeared in favour of Israel, by causing a dread to fall on their enemies, that they durst not sally out of the city and attack them; so it showed great faith in Joshua, and the Israelites, to administer circumcision at this time, just as they were landed in an enemy's country; and when the waters of Jordan were returned, and there was no going back, and if they could, as they were not in a condition to fight, so not to flee.

F1 Annales Vet. Test. p. 38.
F2 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 11. p. 31.

Josué 5:8 In-Context

6 Pues los hijos de Israel anduvieron por el desierto cuarenta años, hasta que pereció toda la nación, es decir, los hombres de guerra que salieron de Egipto, porque no escucharon la voz del SEÑOR; a ellos el SEÑOR les juró que no les permitiría ver la tierra que el SEÑOR había jurado a sus padres que nos daría, una tierra que mana leche y miel.

7 Y a los hijos de ellos, que El levantó en su lugar, Josué los circuncidó; pues eran incircuncisos, porque no los habían circuncidado en el camino.

8 Y sucedió que cuando terminaron de circuncidar a toda la nación, permanecieron en sus lugares en el campamento hasta que sanaron.

9 Entonces el SEÑOR dijo a Josué: Hoy he quitado de vosotros el oprobio de Egipto. Por eso aquel lugar se ha llamado Gilgal hasta hoy.

10 Estando los hijos de Israel acampados en Gilgal, celebraron la Pascua en la noche del día catorce del mes en los llanos de Jericó.