The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
We can hardly believe that any Christian commentator would have written anything like this: "The reference to `the first month' here means that  Joshua 4:19 must be dated as late as 605 B.C."[5]   No Babylonian influence whatever is in this verse!  "The first month" here is the first month of the Jewish religious year, as indicated in  Exodus 12:2, to which this is a clear reference.  "Here is also a SUBSTANTIATION of the Pentateuchal testimony that a whole generation had expired since the observance of the original Passover."[6]   Such passages as these confirm absolutely the vital and intimate link between the Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua.