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}}</ref> Joshua must have known of the traumatic effects of child circumcision, because he caused all of the male children born during the forty years in the wilderness to be circumcised in a mass circumcision at Gilgal in preparation for the conquest of Canaan.<ref>Joshua 5:3 KJV (1611)</ref> Gilgal came to be known as "the hill of the [[foreskin]]s."<ref>Joshua 5:3 KJV (1611)</ref> | }}</ref> Joshua must have known of the traumatic effects of child circumcision, because he caused all of the male children born during the forty years in the wilderness to be circumcised in a mass circumcision at Gilgal in preparation for the conquest of Canaan.<ref>Joshua 5:3 KJV (1611)</ref> Gilgal came to be known as "the hill of the [[foreskin]]s."<ref>Joshua 5:3 KJV (1611)</ref> | ||
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(The name "Gilgal" was adopted as the name of an infamous British circumcision fetish [[Gilgal Society| society]].)</small> | |||
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