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And seven priests will bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day you will march around the city seven times, and the priests will blow on the trumpets. And when they blow long on the horn of the ram, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people will shout with a great war cry, and the wall of the city will fall flat,[a] and the people will charge, each one straight ahead.”[b] 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.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 6:5 Or “in its place”
  2. Joshua 6:5 Literally “the people will go up, each before him”