10. “Do not shout; do not even talk,” Joshua commanded. “Not a single word from any of you until I tell you to shout. Then shout!”
11. So the Ark of the lord was carried around the town once that day, and then everyone returned to spend the night in the camp.
12. Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests again carried the Ark of the lord.
13. The seven priests with the rams’ horns marched in front of the Ark of the lord, blowing their horns. Again the armed men marched both in front of the priests with the horns and behind the Ark of the lord. All this time the priests were blowing their horns.
14. On the second day they again marched around the town once and returned to the camp. They followed this pattern for six days.
15. On the seventh day the Israelites got up at dawn and marched around the town as they had done before. But this time they went around the town seven times.
16. The seventh time around, as the priests sounded the long blast on their horns, Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the lord has given you the town!
17. Jericho and everything in it must be completely destroyed as an offering to the lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and the others in her house will be spared, for she protected our spies.
18. “Do not take any of the things set apart for destruction, or you yourselves will be completely destroyed, and you will bring trouble on the camp of Israel.