1 En toe al die konings van die Amoriete wat anderkant die Jordaan na die weste was, en al die konings van die Kana„niete wat by die see woon, hoor dat die HERE die water van die Jordaan voor die kinders van Israel uit laat opdroog het, totdat hulle deurgetrek het, het hulle hart versmelt en was daar in hulle geen moed meer vanweë die kinders van Israel nie.

2 In die tyd het die HERE vir Josua gesê: Maak vir jou klipmesse en besny weer die kinders van Israel vir die tweede keer.

3 Toe het Josua vir hom klipmesse gemaak en die kinders van Israel besny by die heuwel van die voorhuide.

4 En dit is die rede dat Josua hulle besny het: Die hele volk wat uit Egipte uitgetrek het, die manspersone, al die krygsmanne, het op pad in die woestyn gesterwe, op hulle trek uit Egipte.

5 Want die hele volk wat uitgetrek het, was besnede; maar die hele volk wat op pad in die woestyn gebore is, op hulle trek uit Egipte, het hulle nie besny nie.

6 Want veertig jaar lank het die kinders van Israel in die woestyn getrek, totdat die hele volk omgekom het, die krygsmanne wat uit Egipte weggetrek het, wat nie aan die stem van die HERE gehoorsaam was nie; vir wie die HERE gesweer het dat Hy hulle die land nie sou laat sien wat die HERE hulle vaders met 'n eed beloof het om aan ons te gee nie -- 'n land wat oorloop van melk en heuning.

7 Maar in hulle plek het Hy hul seuns gestel; die het Josua besny; want hulle was onbesnede, omdat hulle op pad nie besny is nie.

8 En toe die hele volk klaar besny is, het hulle op hul plek in die laer gebly totdat hulle gesond was.

9 Toe het die HERE vir Josua gesê: Vandag het Ek die smaad van Egipte van julle afgewentel. Daarom het hulle die plek Gilgal genoem tot vandag toe.

10 Terwyl die kinders van Israel by Gilgal gelaer was, het hulle die pasga gehou op die veertiende dag van die maand in die aand, in die vlaktes van J,rigo.

11 En hulle het die dag n die pasga van die opbrings van die land geëet: ongesuurde brode en gebraaide koring, daardie selfde dag.

12 En die dag nadat hulle van die opbrings van die land geëet het, het die manna opgehou, sodat die kinders van Israel verder geen manna gehad het nie; maar hulle het geëet van die opbrings van die land Kana„n in daardie jaar.

13 En terwyl Josua by J,rigo was, slaan hy sy oë op en kyk, en daar staan 'n man teenoor hom met 'n ontblote swaard in sy hand; en Josua het na hom gegaan en hom gevra: Behoort U by ons of by ons vyande?

14 En Hy sê: Nee, maar Ek is die leërowerste van die HERE; Ek het nou gekom. Toe val Josua met sy aangesig op die grond en buig hom neer en vra Hom: Wat wil my Here aan sy dienskneg sê?

15 Toe sê die leërowerste van die HERE vir Josua: Trek jou skoene van jou voete af, want die plek waar jy op staan, is heilig. En Josua het so gedoen.

1 Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

3 So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

4 And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.

5 All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.

6 For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste land for forty years, till all the nation, that is, all the fighting-men, who had come out of Egypt, were dead, because they did not give ear to the voice of the Lord: to whom the Lord said, with an oath, that he would not let them see the land which the Lord had given his word to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

7 And their children, who came up in their place, now underwent circumcision by the hands of Joshua, not having had it before: for there had been no circumcision on the journey.

8 So when all the nation had undergone circumcision, they kept in their tents till they were well again.

9 And the Lord said to Joshua, Today the shame of Egypt has been rolled away from you. So that place was named Gilgal, to this day.

10 So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho.

11 And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day.

12 And there was no more manna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the land; the children of Israel had manna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaan was their food.

13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, lifting up his eyes he saw a man in front of him, with his sword uncovered in his hand: and Joshua went up to him and said, Are you for us or against us?

14 And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?

15 And the captain of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. And Joshua did so.