Joshua 6

And Jericho was shut up and fortified, and no one went out from it nor came in.

And the Lord said to Joshua: Behold, I am delivering Jericho into your hand, and its king who is in it, who are mighty in strength.

And you, station the fighting men around it in a circle.

And it shall be that when you sound the trumpet, let all the people shout together; and when they shout, the walls of the city shall fall of themselves, and all the people shall enter, each rushing straight before him into the city.

And Joshua the son of Naue went in to the priests,

and said to them, saying: Command the people to go around and encircle the city, and let the fighting men pass along armed before the Lord.

And let seven priests having seven sacred trumpets pass by likewise before the Lord, and let them sound vigorously, and let the ark of the covenant of the Lord follow after.

And let the fighting men pass along in front, and the priests bringing up the rear go behind the ark of the covenant of the Lord, going along and sounding the trumpets.

And Joshua commanded the people, saying: Do not shout, nor let any one of you hear the voice, until the day he himself announces to shout aloud; and then you shall shout.

And the ark of the covenant of God, having gone around the city, immediately departed into the camp and lodged there.

And on the second day Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

And the seven priests who bore the seven trumpets went on ahead before the Lord, and after these the fighting men marched in, and the rest of the crowd behind the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and the priests sounded the trumpets, and all the rest of the crowd encircled the city close by.

And it returned again into the camp. Thus he did for six days.

And on the seventh day they rose at dawn and went around the city six times.

And at the seventh circuit the priests sounded the trumpets, and Joshua said to the sons of Israel: Shout, for the Lord has delivered the city to you.

And the city shall be devoted to destruction, it and all that is in it, to the Lord Sabaoth; but Rahab the prostitute, preserve her alive, and all that is in her house.

But you, guard yourselves strictly from the devoted thing, lest you yourselves, setting your heart on it, take from the devoted thing and make the camp of the sons of Israel a devoted thing and wipe us out.

And all silver or gold or bronze or iron shall be holy to the Lord; it shall be brought into the treasury of the Lord.

And the priests sounded the trumpets. And when the people heard the sound of the trumpets, all the people shouted together with a great and mighty shout, and the whole wall fell down all around, and all the people went up into the city.

And Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all that was in the city, from man even to woman, from young man even to old man, and even to calf and beast of burden, with the edge of the sword.

And Joshua said to the two young men who had spied: Go into the woman's house and bring her out from there, and all that belongs to her.

And the two young men who had spied out the city went into the woman's house and brought out Raab the prostitute and her father and her mother and her brothers and all that belonged to her and all her kindred; and they set her outside the camp of Israel.

And the city was burned with fire together with all that were in it; only the silver and the gold and the bronze and the iron they gave over to be brought into the treasury of the Lord.

But Joshua saved alive Raab the prostitute and all her father's household; and she dwelt in Israel until this day, because she hid the spies whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

And Joshua swore on that day before the Lord, saying: Cursed be the man who builds that city; with his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates. And so did Ozan who was of Bethel: with Abiron his firstborn he laid its foundation, and with his youngest, who was preserved alive, he set up its gates.

And the Lord was with Joshua, and his name was throughout all the land.