4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: tall the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.
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Numbers 14:29
your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me,
Numbers 26:64–65
But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. For the LORD had said of them, “They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
Deuteronomy 2:16
“So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people,
Psalm 106:26
Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness,
1 Corinthians 10:5
Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
Hebrews 3:17
And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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