Joshua 5:8

Till they were whole. Literally, till they revived, as in Genesis 20:7 ; 2 Kings 1:2 ; 2 Kings 8:8 . Objections have been raised (see Keil and Delitzsch in loc) to the possibility of this circumcision taking place in one day. But it has been shown by calculation that between one-third and one-fourth of the people who remained had been circumcised already, and that therefore such an operation as this could be performed with the utmost ease in a very short time. The word גוִו is used here again, since the people were still Gentiles until the rite of circumcision was performed.