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MOF JOS Chapter 6

6 Now Jericho had shut its gates against the Israelites; no one left the town, and no one entered it. 2 Then the Eternal said to Joshua, “I am putting Jericho into your hands, with its king and all its fighting men. 3 For six days you and all your men at arms shall march round the town once a day, 4 with seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns as trumpets in front of the ark. On the seventh day you shall march round the town seven times, and the priests shall blow a trumpet blast. 5 As soon as they blow a long trumpet blast on the horns, whenever you hear the sound, then all the people must raise a mighty shout, and the wall of the town will fall down flat, till every man of you can march in, straight in front of him.” 6 So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and told them to lift the ark of the compact and let seven priests carry seven rams’ horns as trumpets in front of the ark of the Eternal. 7 Then he told the people, “Forward, march round the town, with the armed men in front of the ark of the Eternal; 8 let the seven priests with the trumpets of rams’ horns go ahead in presence of the Eternal, blowing the trumpets, and followed by the ark of the compact of the Eternal. 9 Let the armed men go in front of the priests who blow the trumpets, and let the rearguard follow the ark, the trumpets blowing.’ 10 To the people Joshua said, “You must not shout nor cry, you must not say a word, until I tell you to shout; then shout.” 11 He had the ark of the Eternal carried round the town, going round it once; then all retired to the camp and passed the night there. 12 Next morning Joshua rose, the priests lifted the ark of the Eternal, 13 and the seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns as trumpets kept on in front of the ark of the Eternal, blowing a blast, preceded by the armed men, with the rearguard after the ark, the trumpets blowing as they went. 14 On the second day they marched round the town once, and then retired to the camp. This they did for six days. 15 On the seventh day they rose at dawn and marched round the town seven times; this was the only day they marched seven times round it. 16 The seventh time, when the priests blew their blast, Joshua said to the people, ”Shout, for the Eternal has given you the town. 17 It shall be doomed to destruction, the town and all in it; only Rahab the harlot shall be spared, she and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. 18 As for you, hands off any of the doomed spoil, lest you desire it and take some of it! That would be the ruin and undoing of the camp of Israel. 19 No, all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Eternal and must come to the treasury of the Eternal.” 20 Then the people shouted, at the trumpet blast, And when the people heard the sound of the trumpet blast and raised a mighty shout, down the wall fell flat, till every man could march in, straight in front of him. In they marched and so they took the town, 21 They massacred all in the city, men and women, old and young alike, oxen, sheep, and asses, giving no quarter. 22 But Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the country, ”Go to the harlot’s house and fetch the woman out, with all she has, as you swore to her.” 23 So the young spies went and brought Rahab out, with her father and mother and brothers and all she had, all her family; they placed them outside the camp of Israel. 24 The town and all in it they burned up; only the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron they put into the treasury of the Eternal. 25 Rahab the harlot and her family and all she had, Joshua spared; she lived among the Israelites, as do her descendants to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. 26 Joshua then laid this oath upon the people: “Cursed before the Eternal be the man who starts to rebuild this town of Jericho! At the cost of his oldest son shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he erect its gates.” 27 The Eternal was with Joshua, and the fame of him spread all over the land.

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