KJ3 Literal Translation
Joshua 6
Jericho is shut up. 2 God instructs Joshua how to beseige it. 11 The city is surrounded. 20 The walls fall down. 22 Rahab is saved. 26 The rebuilder of Jericho is cursed.
1And Jericho was closed, and was shut in from the face of the sons of Israel; no one going out, and no one coming in.
2And Jehovah said to Joshua, See I have given Jericho and its king, mighty ones of strength, into your hand.
3And you shall go around the city, all the men of war, going around the city once; so you shall do six days.
4And seven priests shall bear seven rams' horns of trumpets before the ark. And on the seventh day you shall go around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the rams' horns of trumpets in front of the ark.
5And it shall be, when they blow long with the rams' horn, and when you hear the sound of the rams' horn, all the people shall shout with a great shout. And the wall of the city shall fall underneath; and the people shall go up, each man in front of him.
6And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, Lift up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' before the ark of Jehovah.
7And he said to the people, Pass on, go around the city, and he who is armed shall go on before the ark of Jehovah.
8And it happened, when Joshua spoke to the people, the seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before Jehovah passed on and blew with the rams' horns. And the ark of the covenant of Jehovah went after them.
9And he who was armed went before the priests blowing the rams' horns. And the rear guard after the ark, going on and blowing with the rams' horns.
10And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, You shall not shout, nor cause your voice to be heard, and not shall there go from your mouth a word until the day I say to you, Shout! Then you shall shout.
11And the ark of Jehovah went around the city, going around one time. And they came into the camp, and remained in the camp.
12And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests bore the ark of Jehovah.
13And seven priests bearing seven rams' horns of trumpets were walking before the ark of Jehovah, going on, and were blowing with the rams' horns. And he who was armed went before them. And the rear guard went behind the ark of Jehovah, going on and blowing with the trumpets of rams' horns
14And they circled the city on the second day one time, and returned to the camp. So they did six days.
15And it happened on the seventh day, they rose early, at the dawning of the day, and went around the city seven times in the same way. Only on that day they circled the city seven times.
16And it happened at the seventh time the priests blew with the rams' horns. And Joshua said to the people, Shout! For Jehovah has given you the city.
17And the city shall be devoted to Jehovah, it and all that are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18And you shall certainly keep clear of the devoted things, that you not become accursed by taking from the devoted things, and shall make the camp of Israel become devoted, and trouble it.
19And all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, they are holy to Jehovah; they shall come into the treasury of Jehovah.
20And the people shouted, and blew with the rams' horns, and it happened, when the people heard the sound of the rams' horn, the people shouted a great shout. And the wall fell underneath it; and the people went up into the city, each man in front of him; and they captured the city.
21And they destroyed all that was in the city, from man even to woman, from young even to aged, and to ox, and sheep, and ass, by the mouth of the sword.
22And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring the woman out from there, and all whom she has, as you have sworn to her.
23And the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all whom she had; yea, they brought all her family, and set them outside the camp of Israel.
24And they burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they gave the silver and the gold, and the vessels of bronze, and of iron, to the treasury of the house of Jehovah.
25And Joshua kept alive Rahab the harlot, and the house of her father, and all whom she had. And she lives in the midst of Israel to this day. For she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26And at that time Joshua adjured, saying, Cursed be the man who rises up before the face of Jehovah and builds this city of Jericho. He shall lay its foundation at the cost of his first-born, and he shall set up its doors in his youngest son.
27And Jehovah was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.
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