Chapter 5
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And it was when Joshua was in Jericho and he lifted his eyes and he saw, and behold—a man was standing before him, with his sword drawn in his hand—and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”
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And he said, "No, for I am chief of the army of the LORD; now I have come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and prostrated himself. And he said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"
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The commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Remove your sandal from your foot, for the place where you are standing is holy." And he did so.
Chapter 6
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And Jericho had shut itself up and was shut up because of the sons of Israel; no one was going out and no one was coming in.
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The LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have given Jericho and its king, the mighty men of the army, into your hand."
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You shall go around the city, all the men of war, encircling the city once. In this way you shall do for six days.
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And seven priests shall bear seven shofars of the jubilees before the ark, and on the seventh day you shall circle the city seven times, and the priests shall sound the shofars.
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And it will be at the sounding of the horn of the jubilee, when you hear the voice of the shofar, all the people will shout a great teruah, and the wall of the city will fall beneath it, and the people will go up, a man opposite it.
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And Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Carry the Ark of the Covenant, and seven priests shall carry seven jubilee trumpets before the Ark of the LORD."
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And he said to the people, "Pass over and go around the city, and the pioneer troop will pass before the Ark of the LORD."
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And it was as Joshua had spoken to the people, and seven priests bearing seven jubilee trumpets before the LORD passed over and sounded the trumpets, and the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD went after them.
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And the vanguard went before the priests who blew the shofarot, and the rearguard went after the ark, going and blowing the shofarot.
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Joshua commanded the people, "Do not shout, do not make your voice heard, and no word shall go out of your mouth until the day I say to you, 'Shout!' Then you shall shout."
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And the ark of the LORD circled the city, going around it one time, and they came to the camp and spent the night in the camp.
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And Joshua arose early in the morning, and the priests carried the ark of the LORD.
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And seven priests bearing seven rams' horns before the Ark of the LORD went on, going and blowing the horns, and the vanguard went before them, and the rearguard went after the Ark of the LORD, going and blowing the horns.
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And they went around the city on the second day one time and they encamped at the camp. In this way they did six days.
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And it was on the seventh day that they rose early at dawn's ascent and marched around the city according to this fixed number seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times.
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And it was at the seventh time when the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given the city to you.”
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The city shall be devoted to the LORD as a ban, it and all that is in it; only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, for she hid the messengers whom we sent.
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But you keep away from the ban, lest you take from the ban and put the camp of Israel under ban and trouble it.
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And all the silver and gold and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they shall enter the treasury of the LORD.
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And the people shouted, and they blew the trumpets. And it happened that when the people heard the sound of the trumpet and the people shouted a great shout, the wall fell beneath it. And the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they captured the city.
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And they devoted everything in the city to destruction, from man to woman, from youth to elder, and to ox and sheep and donkey, by the mouth of the sword.
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And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, just as you swore to her."
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And the young men who were the spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brother and all that she had and all her families. They brought them out and settled them outside the camp of Israel.
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And they burned the city with fire, and everything that was in it. Only the silver and the gold and the vessels of bronze and iron they gave to the treasury of the house of the LORD.
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Joshua kept Rahab the prostitute and her father's house and all she had alive, and she lived in the midst of Israel until this day, because she hid the angels whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
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And Joshua swore at that time, saying, "Cursed be the man before the LORD who rises up and builds this city, Jericho; in his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and in his youngest he will set its gates."
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And the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the earth.