Passover at Gilgal

After Israel crossed the Jordan, the kings of the Amorites to the west and the kings of the Canaanites by the sea heard what Yahweh had done. Their hearts melted, and they lost courage because of the children of Israel. At that time, Yahweh told Joshua to make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel.

Joshua obeyed. The men who had come out of Egypt had been circumcised, but the sons born during the wilderness journey had not. The earlier generation, especially the men of war who came out of Egypt, died in the wilderness because they did not listen to Yahweh. So Joshua circumcised their children, whom God had raised up in their place.

When the whole nation had been circumcised, they stayed in the camp until they were healed. Then Yahweh said that he had rolled away the reproach of Egypt from them. Because of this, the place was called Gilgal.

The children of Israel camped at Gilgal and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of Jericho. Before they moved on, they stopped there together for this covenant meal.

On the day after the Passover, they ate unleavened cakes and parched grain from the produce of the land. The next day, the manna stopped. Israel had manna no more, because that year they ate the fruit of the land of Canaan.