922. Israel Re-establishes Covenant Ceremonies — Joshua 5:1-12

922.

Israel is Circumcised 
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Today's Passage: Joshua 5:1-12 

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Thank You for meeting me, LORD.
I welcome you into this place.
Please prepare my heart Jehovah.
Thank you for insight.
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Again, I would like to emphasize, simple acts of meditation are not so much difficult, as uncomfortable.
God wants you to know how His story happened.
How He created the earth, made his children, and how traditions became interwoven into his family.

• Open your heart. Begin with confession. 
• Ask God to prompt you to hear Him and what He wants you to come away with.
• Read the passage.
• Does this passage answer questions or lay down foundations of traditions you have often wondered about?
• Read the passage again.
• Take a moment to highlight the verses that answer a question you have often wondered about.
• Has a particular spiritual practice been born out these particular passages. If so, write the spiritual practice down, and then the scripture book and numbers corresponding to it. 
• You might consider writing this in the margin of your bible. or even in the inside cover for future reference.
• End by asking God to reveal to you the reasons for His traditions. Is there a meaning that applies to you today?
• Don't forget to thank God for being with you right where you are, right now.

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1. When all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings who lived along the Mediterranean coast heard how the LORD had dried up the Jordan River so the people of Israel could cross, they lost heart and were paralyzed with fear because of them.

Israel Reestablishes

2. At that time the LORD told Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise this second generation of Israelites."
3. So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

4. Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness. 
5. Those who left Egypt had all been circumcised, but none of those born after the Exodus, during the years in the wilderness, had been circumcised.
6. The Israelites had traveled in the wilderness for forty years until all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died. For they had disobeyed the LORD, and the LORD vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us — a land flowing with milk and honey.
7. So Joshua circumcised their sons — those who had grown up to take their fathers' places — for they had not been circumcised on the way to the Promised Land.
8. After all the males had been circumcised, they rested in the camp until they were healed.

9. Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the shame of your slavery in Egypt." So that place has been called Gilgal to this day.

10. While the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month. 
11. The very next day they began to eat unleavened bread and roasted grain harvested from the land.
12. No manna appeared on the day they first ate from the crops of the land, and it was never seen again. So from that time on the Israelites ate from the crops of Canaan.
Joshua 5:1-12 NLT

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