1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel:
none went out, and none came in. 2 Yahweh said to Joshua, Behold, I have
given into your hand Jericho, and the king of it, and the mighty men of
valor. 3 You shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about
the city once. Thus shall you do six days. 4 Seven priests shall bear
seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark: and the seventh day you
shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and
when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with
a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people
shall go up every man straight before him. 6 Joshua the son of Nun called
the priests, and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven
priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh.
7 They said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the
armed men pass on before the ark of Yahweh. 8 It was so, that when Joshua
had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of
rams' horns before Yahweh passed on, and blew the trumpets: and the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh followed them. 9 The armed men went before the
priests who blew the trumpets, and the rearward went after the ark, the
priests blowing the trumpets as they went. 10 Joshua commanded the
people, saying, You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard,
neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you
shout; then shall you shout. 11 So he caused the ark of Yahweh to
compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and
lodged in the camp. 12 Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests
took up the ark of Yahweh. 13 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets
of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the
trumpets: and the armed men went before them; and the rearward came after the
ark of Yahweh, the priests blowing the trumpets as they went.
14 The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the
camp: so they did six days. 15 It happened on the seventh day, that they
rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same
manner seven times: only on the day they compassed the city seven times.
16 It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets,
Joshua said to the people, Shout; for Yahweh has given you the city.
17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Yahweh:
only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the
house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. 18 But as for you,
only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted
it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of
Israel accursed, and trouble it. 19 But all the silver, and gold, and
vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh: they shall come into the
treasury of Yahweh. 20 So the people shouted, and the priests blew
the trumpets; and it happened, when the people heard the sound of the
trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down
flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before
him, and they took the city. 21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the
city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey,
with the edge of the sword. 22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied
out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out there the woman,
and all that she has, as you swore to her. 23 The young men the spies
went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her
brothers, and all that she had; all her relatives also they brought out; and
they set them outside of the camp of Israel. 24 They burnt the city with
fire, and all that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the
vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of
Yahweh. 25 But Rahab the prostitute, and her father's household, and all
that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she lived in the midst of Israel to
this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out
Jericho. 26 Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed
be the man before Yahweh, that rises up and builds this city Jericho: with
the loss of his firstborn shall he lay the foundation of it, and with the
loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it. 27 So Yahweh was
with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
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