Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 5:9

9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you: wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal, unto this day.

i. e. Uncircumcision, which was both in Truth, and in the opinion of the Iews, a matter of great reproach, Gen. 34. 14. 1 Sam. 14. 6. and 17. 26. And although this was a reproach common to most Nations of the World, yet it is particularly called the reproach of Egypt, either, 1. because the other neighbouring Nations, being the children of Abraham by the Concubines, are supposed to have been Circumcised, which the Egyptians at this time were not, as may be gathered from Exod. 2. 6. where they knew the Child to be an Hebrew by this mark. Or 2. because they came out of Egypt, and were esteemed to be a sort of Egyptians, Numb. 22. 5. which they justly thought a great reproach; but by their Circumcision they were now distinguished from them, and manifested to be another kind of people. Or 3. Because many of them lay under this reproach in Egypt, having wickedly neglected this Duty there for worldly reasons; and others of them continued in the same shameful condition for many years in the Wilderness.

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