1 Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until they "had crossed over, their hearts melted in fear and they no longer had the courage to face the Israelites.2 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again."3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth. [^2]4 Now this is why he did so: All those who came out of Egypt —all the men of military age —died in the wilderness on the way after leaving Egypt.5 All the people that came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness during the journey from Egypt had not.6 The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the LORD. For the LORD had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.7 So he raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. They were still uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way.8 And after the whole nation had been circumcised, they remained where they were in camp until they were healed.9 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." So the place has been called Gilgal "to this day.10 On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.11 The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.12 The manna stopped the day after "they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, "Are you for us or for our enemies?"14 "Neither," he replied, "but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, "What message does my Lord "have for his servant?"15 The commander of the LORD's army replied, "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing 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.