(the Joshua 5 lemma, vv. 1–16:)
1. When, therefore, all the kings of the Amorites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan toward the western region, and all the kings of Canaan, who possessed the places near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the streams of the Jordan before the sons of Israel until they passed over, their heart was melted, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the entry of the sons of Israel. 2. At that time the Lord said to Joshua: Make thee knives of stone, and circumcise the sons of Israel the second time. 3. He did what the Lord had commanded, and circumcised the sons of Israel on the hill of the foreskins. 4. And this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people that came out of Egypt of the male sex, all the men of war, died in the desert through the very long circuits of the way, 5. who were all circumcised. But the people that was born in the desert, 6. during the forty years of the journey of that widest wilderness, was uncircumcised — until those were consumed who had not heard the voice of the Lord, and to whom he had before sworn that he would not show them the land flowing with milk and honey. 7. The sons of these succeeded into the place of their fathers, and were circumcised by Joshua; because, as they had been born, they were in [their] foreskin, nor had anyone circumcised them on the way. 8. Now after they were all circumcised, they remained in the same place of the camp until they were healed. 9. And the Lord said to Joshua: This day I have taken away the reproach of Egypt from you. And the name of that place was called Galgala [Gilgal], unto the present day. 10. And the sons of Israel remained in Galgala, and kept the Phase [Passover] on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the plains of Jericho; 11. and they ate of the fruits of the Land, on the next day, unleavened bread, and parched grain of the same year. 12. The manna ceased after they ate of the fruits of the Land; nor did the sons of Israel use that food any more, but they ate of the fruits of the present year of the Land of Canaan. 13. Now when Joshua was in the field of the city of Jericho, he lifted up [his] eyes, and saw a man standing over against him, holding a drawn sword; and he went to him, and said: Art thou ours, or [of] our adversaries? 14. Who answered: By no means; but I am the prince of the host of the Lord, and now I come. 15. Joshua fell prostrate on the ground. And, adoring, said: What does my Lord say to his servant? 16. Loose, said he, thy shoe from off thy feet: for the place in which thou standest is holy. And Joshua did as had been commanded him.