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Originally Posted by staysharp
I'm not DA, but I do have an interesting answer, Moses' wife had a real problem with circumcision, she called it too bloody. Her father was a Midianite Priest and obviously a worshiper of idols. So, to appease his wife, Moses refused to circumcise the people. An entire generation in the wilderness never received circumcision. We see in Joshua where he reinstituted the practice.
Exodus4
25Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
26So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
Joshua 5
2At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
3And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
4And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
So, the truth is, we have a merciful God who overlooks a lot of our foolishness. |
Actually the people that came out of Egypt WERE circumcised. It was the next generation born DURING their trip in the wilderness that was not circumcised yet
God's original covenant was with the people that left Egypt, but they disobeyed God.
Jos 5:6 For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Jos 5:7 So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.
Jos 5:8 When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.
Jos 5:9 And the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.
Jos 5:10 While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.
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