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with milk and honey.” Then Joshua circum- LORD.” And he said to the people, “Proceed,
cised their sons whom He raised up in their and march around the city, and let him who is
place; for they were uncircumcised, because armed advance before the ark of the LORD.”
they had not been circumcised on the way. 8 So it was, when Joshua had spoken to the
8 So it was, when they had finished circum- people, that the seven priests bearing the
cising all the people, that they stayed in their seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the LORD
places in the camp till they were healed. Then advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark
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the LORD said to Joshua, “This day I have of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” 9 The armed men went before the priests who
Therefore the name of the place is called blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came
Gilgal to this day. after the ark, while the priests continued blow-
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10 Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, ing the trumpets. Now Joshua had com-
and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day manded the people, saying, “You shall not
of the month at twilight on the plains of Jericho. shout or make any noise with your voice, nor
11 And they ate of the produce of the land on the shall a word proceed out of your mouth, until
day after the Passover, unleavened bread and the day I say to you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall
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parched grain, on the very same day. Then shout.” So he had the ark of the LORD circle
the manna ceased on the day after they had the city, going around it once. Then they came
eaten the produce of the land; and the chil- into the camp and lodged in the camp.
dren of Israel no longer had manna, but they 12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and
ate the food of the land of Canaan that year. the priests took up the ark of the LORD. Then
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13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’
Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and horns before the ark of the LORD went on con-
behold, a Man stood opposite him with His tinually and blew with the trumpets. And the
sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to armed men went before them. But the rear
Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for guard came after the ark of the LORD, while
our adversaries?” the priests continued blowing the trumpets.
14 So He said, “No, but as Commander of the 14 And the second day they marched around
army of the LORD I have now come.” the city once and returned to the camp. So
And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and they did six days.
worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my 15 But it came to pass on the seventh day that
Lord say to His servant?” they rose early, about the dawning of the day,
15 Then the Commander of the LORD’s army and marched around the city seven times in
said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your the same manner. On that day only they
foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” marched around the city seven times. And
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And Joshua did so. the seventh time it happened, when the
Now Jericho was securely shut up priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to
6 because of the children of Israel; none the people: “Shout, for the LORD has given you
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went out, and none came in. And the LORD the city! Now the city shall be doomed by the
said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into LORD to destruction, it and all who are in it.
your hand, its king, and the mighty men of Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all
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valor. You shall march around the city, all you who are with her in the house, because she
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men of war; you shall go all around the city hid the messengers that we sent. And you, by
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once. This you shall do six days. And seven all means abstain from the accursed things,
priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ lest you become accursed when you take of
horns before the ark. But the seventh day you the accursed things, and make the camp of
shall march around the city seven times, and Israel a curse, and trouble it. But all the silver
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the priests shall blow the trumpets. It shall and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are
come to pass, when they make a long blast consecrated to the LORD; they shall come into
with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the the treasury of the LORD.”
sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall 20 So the people shouted when the priests
shout with a great shout; then the wall of the blew the trumpets. And it happened when the
city will fall down flat. And the people shall go people heard the sound of the trumpet, and
up every man straight before him.” the people shouted with a great shout, that the
6 Then Joshua the son of Nun called the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up
priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of into the city, every man straight before him,
the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven and they took the city. And they utterly
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trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the destroyed all that was in the city, both man
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