9. The armed men went before the priests who blew the shofars, and the ark went after them. The shofars sounded as they went.
10. Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”
11. So he caused the Lord’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.
12. Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the Lord’s ark.
13. The seven priests bearing the seven shofars of rams’ horns in front of the Lord’s ark went on continually, and blew the shofars. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after the Lord’s ark. The shofars sounded as they went.
14. The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
15. On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.
16. At the seventh time, when the priests blew the shofars, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city!
17. The 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.