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Joshua Chapter 6

¹Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.

²ForeverOne said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.

³All your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.

⁴Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

⁵It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him." ⁶Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of ForeverOne." ⁷They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before ForeverOne's ark." ⁸When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before ForeverOne advanced, and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of ForeverOne followed them.

⁹The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.

¹⁰Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout." ¹¹So he caused the ark of ForeverOne to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

¹²Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of ForeverOne.

¹³The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of ForeverOne went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them. The rear guard came after the ark of ForeverOne. The trumpets sounded as they went.

¹⁴The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.

¹⁵On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.

¹⁶At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for ForeverOne has given you the city!

¹⁷The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to ForeverOne. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

¹⁸But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.

¹⁹But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to ForeverOne. They shall enter ForeverOne's treasury." ²⁰So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

²¹They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

²²Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her." ²³The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.

²⁴They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of ForeverOne's house.

²⁵But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

²⁶Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed is the man before ForeverOne, who rises up and builds this city Jericho. He shall lay its foundation with the loss of his firstborn, and he shall set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son." ²⁷So ForeverOne was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.