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.

1 Postquam ergo audierunt omnes reges Amorrhorum, qui habitabant trans Jordanem ad occidentalem plagam, et cuncti reges Chanaan, qui propinqua possidebant magni maris loca, quod siccasset Dominus fluenta Jordanis coram filiis Isral donec transirent, dissolutum est cor eorum, et non remansit in eis spiritus, timentium introitum filiorum Isral.2 Eo tempore ait Dominus ad Josue : Fac tibi cultros lapideos, et circumcide secundo filios Isral. 3 Fecit quod jusserat Dominus, et circumcidit filios Isral in colle prputiorum. 4 Hc autem causa est secund circumcisionis : omnis populus, qui egressus est de gypto generis masculini, universi bellatores viri, mortui sunt in deserto per longissimos vi circuitus, 5 qui omnes circumcisi erant. Populus autem qui natus est in deserto, 6 per quadraginta annos itineris latissim solitudinis incircumcisus fuit : donec consumerentur qui non audierant vocem Domini, et quibus ante juraverat ut non ostenderet eis terram lacte et melle manantem. 7 Horum filii in locum successerunt patrum, et circumcisi sunt a Josue : quia sicut nati fuerant, in prputio erant, nec eos in via aliquis circumciderat. 8 Postquam autem omnes circumcisi sunt, manserunt in eodem castrorum loco, donec sanarentur. 9 Dixitque Dominus ad Josue : Hodie abstuli opprobrium gypti a vobis. Vocatumque est nomen loci illius Galgala, usque in prsentem diem.10 Manseruntque filii Isral in Galgalis, et fecerunt Phase quartadecima die mensis ad vesperum in campestribus Jericho : 11 et comederunt de frugibus terr die altero, azymos panes, et polentam ejusdem anni. 12 Defecitque manna postquam comederunt de frugibus terr, nec usi sunt ultra cibo illo filii Isral, sed comederunt de frugibus prsentis anni terr Chanaan.13 Cum autem esset Josue in agro urbis Jericho, levavit oculos, et vidit virum stantem contra se, evaginatum tenentem gladium : perrexitque ad eum, et ait : Noster es, an adversariorum ? 14 Qui respondit : Nequaquam : sed sum princeps exercitus Domini, et nunc venio. 15 Cecidit Josue pronus in terram, et adorans ait : Quid dominus meus loquitur ad servum suum ? 16 Solve, inquit, calceamentum tuum de pedibus tuis : locus enim, in quo stas, sanctus est. Fecitque Josue ut sibi fuerat imperatum.