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Now Jericho was shut up and was barred, because of the children of Israel : none went out, and none came in.
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And Jehovah said to Joshua , See , I have given into thy hand Jericho , and the king thereof, [and] the valiant men.
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And ye shall go round the city , all the men of war , encompassing the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days .
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And seven priests shall carry before the ark seven blast-trumpets ; and on the seventh day ye shall go round the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets .
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And it shall come to pass when they make a long blast with the blast-horn , that all the people on hearing the sound of the trumpet shall shout with a great shout ; and the wall of the city shall fall flat, and the people shall go up , each one straight before him.
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And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests , and said to them, Carry the ark of the covenant, and seven priests shall carry seven blast-trumpets before the ark of Jehovah .
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And he said to the people, Pass on, go round the city , and they that are armed shall Pass on before the ark of Jehovah .
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And it came to pass when Joshua had spoken to the people, that the seven priests carrying the seven blast-trumpets before Jehovah passed on and blew with the trumpets ; and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went after them.
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And the armed men went before the priests who blew with the trumpets , and the rearguard came after the ark ; they blew with the trumpets in marching.
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And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout , nor let your voice be heard , neither shall a word proceed out of your mouth , until the day I say to you, shout ; then shall ye shout .
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And the ark of Jehovah went round the city , encompassing [it] once; and they came into the camp , and lodged in the camp .
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And Joshua rose early in the morning , and the priests carried the ark of Jehovah .
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And the seven priests carrying the seven blast-trumpets before the ark of Jehovah went on and blew continually with the trumpets ; and the armed men went before them, and the rearguard went after the ark of Jehovah ; they blew with the trumpets in marching.
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And on the second day they went round the city once, and returned into the camp . So they did six days .
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And it was so that on the seventh day they rose early , about the morning-dawn , and went round the city after the same manner seven times; only on that day they went round the city seven times.
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And it came to pass the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets , that Joshua said to the people, Shout ; for Jehovah has given you the city .
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And the city shall be accursed, it and all that is in it, to Jehovah ; only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house , because she hid the messengers that we sent .
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But in any wise keep from the accursed thing, lest ye make [yourselves] accursed in taking of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
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And all the silver , and gold , and vessels of copper and iron , shall be holy to Jehovah ; they shall come into the treasury of Jehovah .
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And the people shouted , and they blew with the trumpets . And it came to pass when the people heard the sound of the trumpets , and the people shouted with a great shout , that the wall fell down flat; and the people went up into the city , each one straight before him, and they took the city .
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And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city ; both man and woman , young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass , with the edge of the sword .
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And Joshua said to the two men that had spied out the country , Go into the harlot 's house and bring out thence the woman , and all that she has, as ye swore unto her.
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And the young men , the spies , went in and brought out Rahab, and her father , and her mother , and her brethren , and all that she had: all her kindred did they bring out, and they left them outside the camp of Israel .
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And they burned the city with fire , and all that was therein; only the silver , and the gold , and the vessels of copper and of iron , they put into the treasury of the house of Jehovah .
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And Joshua saved alive Rahab the harlot , and her father 's household , and all that she had, and she dwelt in the midst of Israel to this day ; because she hid the messengers whom Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho .
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And Joshua swore at that time , saying, Cursed be the man before Jehovah who shall rise up and build this city Jericho ! In his first-born shall he lay its foundation , and in his youngest son shall he set up its gates.
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And Jehovah was with Joshua ; and his fame was in all the land .