At that time the LORD said unto Joshua,
Make you sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
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Richard Challoner
AD 1781
The second time: Not that such as had been circumcised before were to be circumcised again; but that they were now to renew, and take up again the practice of circumcision; which had been omitted during their forty years' sojourning in the wilderness; by reason of their being always uncertain when they should be obliged to march.