Seven priests shall bear seven (A)trumpets of (B)rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and (C)the priests shall blow the trumpets. And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat,[a] and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.” So 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 the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 6:5 Hebrew under itself; also verse 20

Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams’ horns(A) in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets.(B) When you hear them sound a long blast(C) on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout;(D) then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”

So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.”(E)

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