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Joshua 6 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
6 Josue therefore the son of Nun called the Priests, and said to them: Take up the ark of the covenant: and let seven other Priests take up the seven trumpets of the Jubilees, and march before the ark of our Lord.
7 To the people also he said: Go and compass the city, the armed going before the ark of our Lord.
8 And when Josue had ended his words, and the seven Priests sounded with seven trumpets before the ark of the covenant of our Lord,
9 and all the armed host went before, the rest of the common people followed the ark, and all places sounded with the trumpets.
10 But Josue had commanded the people, saying: You shall not cry, neither shall your voice be heard, nor any word go out of your mouth, until the day come wherein I shall say to you: Cry, and shout.
11 Therefore the ark of our Lord went about the city once a day, & returning into the camp, abode there.
12 Josue therefore rising in the night, the Priests took the ark of our Lord,
13 and seven of them seven trumpets, which are used in the jubilee: and they went before the ark of our Lord walking and sounding: and the armed people went before them, and the rest of the common people followed the ark, and they sounded with trumpets.
14 And they went round about the city the second day once, and returned into the camp. So did they six days.
15 But the seventh day, rising up early they went about the city, as it was ordained, seven times.
16 And when in the seventh going about, the priests sounded with the trumpets, Josue said to all Israel: Make a shout, for our Lord hath delivered to you the city:
17 and let this city be anathema: and all things that are in it, to our Lord. Only Rahab the harlot let her live, with all that be with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent.
18 But you, beware you touch not ought of those things, that are commanded, and be guilty of prevarication, and all the camp of Israel be under sin, and be troubled.
19 But whatsoever gold or silver there shall be, and of brazen vessels and iron, let it be consecrated to our Lord, laid up in his treasures.
20 Therefore all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, after that the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the walls forthwith fell: and every man went up by the place that was against him, and they took the city,
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