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"Also sevenpriests shall carryseventrumpets of rams'hornsbefore the ark; then on the seventhday you shall marcharound the cityseventimes, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
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"It shall be that when they make a longblast with the ram'shorn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a greatshout; and the wall of the city will falldownflat, and the people will go up everymanstraightahead."
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So Joshua the son of Nuncalled the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let sevenpriestscarryseventrumpets of rams'hornsbefore the ark of the LORD."
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And it was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the sevenpriestscarrying the seventrumpets of rams'hornsbefore the LORDwentforward and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of the LORDfollowed* them.
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But Joshuacommanded the people, saying, "You shall not shoutnor let your voice be heardnor let a wordproceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you, 'Shout!' Then you shall shout!"
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The sevenpriestscarrying the seventrumpets of rams'hornsbefore the ark of the LORDwent on continually, and blew the trumpets; and the armed men wentbefore them and the rearguardcameafter the ark of the LORD, while they continued to blow the trumpets.
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Then on the seventhday they roseearly at the dawning of the day and marchedaround the city in the samemannerseventimes; only on that day they marchedaround the cityseventimes.
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"The city shall be under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the LORD; onlyRahab the harlot and allwho are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengerswhom we sent.
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"But as for you, onlykeep yourselves from the thingsunder the ban, so that you do not covet them and takesome of the thingsunder the ban, and make the camp of Israelaccursed and bringtrouble on it.
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So the peopleshouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the peopleheard the sound of the trumpet, the peopleshouted with a greatshout and the wallfelldownflat, so that the peoplewent up into the city, everymanstraightahead, and they took the city.
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Joshuasaid to the twomen who had spied out the land, "Go into the harlot's*house and bring the woman and all she has out of there, as you have sworn to her."
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So the youngmen who were spieswent in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside* the camp of Israel.
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They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
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However, Rahab the harlot and her father'shousehold and all she had, Joshuaspared; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to thisday, for she hid the messengerswhomJoshuasent to spy out Jericho.
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Then Joshua made them take an oath at that time, saying, "Cursedbefore the LORD is the manwhorises up and buildsthiscityJericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngestson he shall set up its gates."