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}}Joshua 5:3 KJV (1611)</ref> Gilgal came to be known as "the hill of the [[foreskin]]s."<ref>{{REFweb
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The Israelites, led by Moses, who apparently was ''not'' circumcised and seems to have placed little importance on the practice, did not practice [[circumcision]] while they trekked in the wilderness for forty years.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua+5%3A5&version=KJV |title=Joshua 5:5 |publisher=KJV ( |website=Bible Gateway |date=1611) |accessdate=2020-02-29}}</ref> All of the circumcised warrior class who had left Egypt had died, and no warriors remained alive.<ref>{{REFweb
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}}</ref> so he needed warriors. Lloyd deMause (1996) reports that [[Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma| childhood trauma]] (including circumcision) makes the subject more angry, aggressive, and violent.<ref>{{REFjournal
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|title=Restaging Fetal Traumas in War and Social Violence - Part 4
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}}</ref> Joshua must have known of the [[Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)| 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.<refname="Joshua 5:3">{{REFweb
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|title=Joshua 5:3
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|date=1611
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== Name adoption ==