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So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry the trumpets of the rams’ horns before the ark of Yahweh.” And he said[a] to the people, “Go forward and march around the city, and let the armed men pass before the ark of Yahweh.

And when Joshua spoke[b] to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the presence of Yahweh went forward and they blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed behind them.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 6:7 Hebrew “they said”
  2. Joshua 6:8 Literally “And it happened the moment of the saying of Joshua”