What Does Joshua 5:10 Mean in the King James?
And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
At Gilgal, where reproach has just been “rolled away,” Passover turns release into a remembrance practiced in the new land.
THE MEANING
A new place does not erase the deliverance that brought you here; remembrance can remain part of your life now. This verse holds arrival and memory together in one shared observance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that beginning again requires forgetting the release that made the beginning possible.
THE ROOT
גִּלְגָּל
Gilgal
GROWS FROM
גלל
The three-letter root גלל (galal) means to roll or roll away; Gilgal is associated with rolling.
Gilgal’s name echoes גלל (galal, “to roll”), the very verb used in the preceding verse for the reproach being rolled away. The place itself carries that release into the setting of this Passover observance.
ALSO GROWS
galal: To roll, roll away
גָּלַל
The preceding verse uses this verb for the removal of reproach, linking the place name to release.
Gilgal: Rolling; a place name associated with rolling
גִּלְגָּל
The name makes the place where Passover is kept echo the release just declared.
פֶּסַח
Pesach
GROWS FROM
פסח
The root פסח (pasach) means to pass over or spare; the noun פֶּסַח (Pesach) names the Passover observance.
The English name “Passover” keeps the observance tied to the act of being passed over and spared. Here that deliverance is remembered in a new place, so the meal carries the story forward into the present.
ALSO GROWS
pasach: To pass over, spare
פָּסַח
The verb names the act recalled by the Passover observance.
Pesach: Passover; the observance commemorating deliverance
פֶּסַח
In this verse, Passover makes deliverance a shared remembrance in the land.
THE PATTERN
A deliverance remains present when a community gives it a recurring, embodied remembrance.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.THE THREAD
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.Gilgal echoes גלל (galal, “to roll”), the verb this verse uses for rolling away reproach. Passover is kept in that very place, so the name and observance meet in a remembrance shaped by release.
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