8. When they were done circumcising the whole nation, they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
9. The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.
10. The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
11. They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
12. The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
13. When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
14. He said, “No; but I have come now as commander of the Lord’s army.”Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and asked him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”
15. The prince of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your shoes; for the place on which you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.