YuēShūyàjì 5:4

4 Yuēshūyà xíng gēlǐ de yuángù , shì yīnwei cóng Āijí chūlai de zhòng mín , jiù shì yīqiè néng dǎzhàng de nán dīng , chū le Āijí yǐhòu , dōu sǐ zaì kuàngyĕ de lù shàng .

YuēShūyàjì 5:4 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 5:4

And this [is] the cause why Joshua did circumcise
Or the reason of the command given him to circumcise the children of Israel at this time, namely, what follows:

all the people that came out of Egypt [that were] males, [even] all
the men of war;
meaning such that were twenty years old, and upwards:

died in the wilderness, by the way, after they came out of Egypt;
not directly, but in a course of forty years, as they journeyed through the wilderness; this is to be understood with an exception of Joshua, Caleb, Eleazar but then there was a large number who were under twenty years of age, that came out of Egypt, and were now living.

YuēShūyàjì 5:4 In-Context

2 Nàshí , Yēhéhuá fēnfu Yuēshūyà shuō , nǐ zhìzào huǒshí dāo , dì èr cì gĕi Yǐsèliè rén xíng gēlǐ .

3 Yuēshūyà jiù zhìzào le huǒshí dāo , zaì chú pí shān nàli gĕi Yǐsèliè rén xíng gēlǐ .

4 Yuēshūyà xíng gēlǐ de yuángù , shì yīnwei cóng Āijí chūlai de zhòng mín , jiù shì yīqiè néng dǎzhàng de nán dīng , chū le Āijí yǐhòu , dōu sǐ zaì kuàngyĕ de lù shàng .

5 Yīnwei chūlai de zhòng mín dōu shòu guō gēlǐ . wéidú chū Āijí yǐhòu , zaì kuàngyĕ de lù shàng suǒ shēng de zhòng mín dōu méiyǒu shòu guō gēlǐ .

6 Yǐsèliè rén zaì kuàngyĕ zǒu le sì shí nián , dĕng dào guó mín , jiù shì chū Āijí de bīng dīng , dōu xiāomiè le , yīnwei tāmen méiyǒu tīng cóng Yēhéhuá de huà . Yēhéhuá céng xiàng tāmen qǐshì , bì bùróng tāmen kànjian Yēhéhuá xiàng tāmen lièzǔ qǐshì , yīngxǔ cìgĕi wǒmen de dì , jiù shì liú nǎi yǔ mì zhī dì .