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Joshua 6 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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and all the people shall enter, each one rushing direct into the city.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And Joshua the <i>son</i> of Naue went in to the priests, and spoke to them, saying, <font color=blue>(6:7)</font> And let seven priests having seven sacred trumpets proceed thus before the Lord, and let them sound loudly; and let the ark of the covenant of the Lord follow. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><font color=blue>(6:6A)</font> Charge the people to go round, and encompass the city; and let your men of war pass on armed before the Lord. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><font color=blue>(OMITTED TEXT)</font> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And let the men of war proceed before, and the priests bringing up the rear behind the ark of the covenant of the Lord <i>proceed</i> sounding the trumpets. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Cry not out, nor let any one hear your voice, until he himself declare to you the time to cry out, and then ye shall cry out. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And the ark of the covenant of God having gone round immediately returned into the camp, and lodged there.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And on the second day Joshua rose up in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterwards the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And all the rest of the multitude compassed the city six times from within a short distance, and went back again into the camp; this they did six days.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And on the seventh day they rose up early, and compassed the city on that day seven times. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And it came to pass at the seventh circuit the priests blew the trumpets; and Joshua said to the children of Israel, Shout, for the Lord has given you the city. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the city shall be devoted, it and all things that are in it, to the Lord of Hosts: only do ye save Raab the harlot, and all things in her house. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But keep yourselves strictly from the accursed thing, lest ye set your mind upon and take of the accursed thing, and ye make the camp of the children of Israel and accursed thing, and destroy us. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And all the silver, or gold, or brass, or iron, shall be holy to the Lord; it shall be carried into the treasury of the Lord. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the people went up into the city: <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and woman, young man and old, and calf and ass, with the edge of the sword.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Joshua said to the two young men who had acted a spies, Go into the house of the woman, and bring her out thence, and all that she has. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And the two young men who had spied out the city entered into the house of the woman, and brought out Raab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and her kindred, and all that she had; and they set her without the camp of Israel. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the city was burnt with fire with all things that were in it; only of the silver, and gold, and brass, and iron, they gave to be brought into the treasury of the Lord. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Joshua saved alive Raab the harlot, and all the house of her father, and caused her to dwell in Israel until this day, because she hid the spies which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Joshua adjured <i>them</i> on that day before the Lord, saying, Cursed <i>be</i> the man who shall build that city: he shall lay the foundation of it in his first-born, and he shall set up the gates of it in his youngest son. And so did Hozan of Baethel; he laid the foundation in Abiron his first-born, and set up the gates of it in his youngest surviving son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And the Lord was with Joshua, and his name was in all the land.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../joshua/5.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joshua 5"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joshua 5" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../joshua/7.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Joshua 7"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Joshua 7" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>