¹⁵ Then on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times. ¹⁶ At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “^(A)Shout! For the Lord has given you the city. ¹⁷ The city shall be ^(B)under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the harlot ^[a]and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.