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Seven days, seven times on the seventh
Israel marched around Jericho once a day for six days, then seven times on the seventh day, before the walls fell. Joshua 6:3–5Joshua 6:15–20
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God told Joshua: march around the city once each day for six days, with seven priests carrying rams' horn trumpets before the ark; on the seventh day march around seven times. Joshua 6:3–4
On the seventh day, after the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, the people shouted, and the wall fell down flat. Joshua 6:15–16Joshua 6:20
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Joshua 6:3–5 WEB
3All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days. 4Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. 5It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the city wall will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”
Joshua 6:15–20 WEB
15On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. On this day only they marched around the city seven times. 16At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the LORD has given you the city! 17The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. 18But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it. 19But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD. They shall come into the LORD’s treasury.” 20So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.
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God's people marched around Jericho once a day for six days, and seven times on the seventh day. Then they shouted and the walls fell down!