約書亞記 5:4

約書亞行割禮的緣故，是因為從埃及出來的眾民，就是一切能打仗的男丁，出了埃及以後，都死在曠野的路上。

yuē shū yà xíng gē lǐ de yuán gù ， shì yīn wèi cóng āi jí chū lái de zhòng mín ， jiù shì yí qiè néng dǎ zhàng de nán dīng ， chū le āi jí yǐ hòu ， dōu sǐ zài kuàng yě de lù shang 。

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way, after they came out of Egypt.