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Take along the sacred chest and tell seven priests to walk in front of it, carrying trumpets.[a]

But on the seventh day, march slowly around the town seven times while the priests blow their trumpets. Then the priests will blast on their trumpets, and everyone else will shout. The wall will fall down, and your soldiers can go straight in from every side.

Joshua called the priests together and said, “Take the chest and tell seven priests to carry trumpets and march ahead of it.”

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Footnotes

  1. 6.4 trumpets: These were hollowed-out ram's horns.

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