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Now, Jericho had shut and barricaded its gates (against the Israelites): no one came out and no one went in. (Joshua 6, 1)
All you warriors must march round the city (go right round the city once, doing the same on six successive days. (Joshua 6, 3)
Seven priests must carry seven ram's-horn trumpets in front of the ark. On the seventh day, you will go seven times round the city and the priests will blow their trumpets). (Joshua 6, 4)
When the ram's horn sounds (when you hear the sound of the trumpet), the entire people must utter a mighty war cry and the city wall will collapse then and there; the people will then go into the assault, each man straight ahead.' (Joshua 6, 5)
To the people he then said, 'Forward! March round the city, and let the vanguard march ahead of the ark of Yahweh!' (Joshua 6, 7)
He made the ark go round the city (going round it once), then they went back to camp, where they spent the night. (Joshua 6, 11)
They marched once round the city (on the second day) and went back to camp; and so on for six days. (Joshua 6, 14)
On the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched (in the same manner) round the city seven times. (This was the only day when they marched round the city seven times.) (Joshua 6, 15)
At the seventh time, the priests blew their trumpets and Joshua said to the people, 'Raise the war cry, for Yahweh has given you the city! (Joshua 6, 16)
'The city and everyone in it must be devoted to Yahweh under the curse of destruction; the life of Rahab the prostitute alone must be spared, with all those with her in her house, since she hid the messengers we sent. (Joshua 6, 17)
The people raised the war cry, the trumpets sounded. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a mighty war cry and the wall collapsed then and there. At once the people stormed the city, each man going straight forward; and they captured the city. (Joshua 6, 20)
They enforced the curse of destruction on everyone in the city: men and women, young and old, including the oxen, the sheep and the donkeys, slaughtering them all. (Joshua 6, 21)
