◄ Joshua 6:6 ►
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Good News Translation
Joshua called the priests and told them, "Take the Covenant Box, and seven of you go in front of it, carrying trumpets."

New Revised Standard Version
So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and have seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”

Contemporary English Version
Joshua called the priests together and said, "Take the chest and tell seven priests to carry trumpets and march ahead of it."

New American Bible
Summoning the priests, Joshua, son of Nun, said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant with seven of the priests carrying ram’s horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then Joshua, the son of Nun, called the priests, and said to them: Take the ark of the covenant: and let seven other priests take the seven trumpets of the jubilee, and march before the ark of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then Joshua, the son of Nun, called the priests, and said to them: Take the ark of the covenant: and let seven other priests take the seven trumpets of the jubilee, and march before the ark of the Lord.

Take up the ark.

Joshua 6:8,13 And when Joshua had ended his words, and the seven priests blew the seven trumpets before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, . . .

Joshua 3:3,6 And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it, rise you up also, and follow them as they go before: . . .

Exodus 25:14 And thou shalt put them in through the rings that are in the sides of the ark, that it may be carried on them:

Deuteronomy 20:2-4 And when the battle is now at hand, the priest shall stand before the army, and shall speak to the people in this manner: . . .

Acts 9:1 And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest

Context
The Walls of Jericho
…5And when the voice of the trumpet shall give a longer and broken tune, and shall sound in your ears, all the people shall shout together with a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the ground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which they shall stand. 6Then Joshua, the son of Nun, called the priests, and said to them: Take the ark of the covenant: and let seven other priests take the seven trumpets of the jubilee, and march before the ark of the Lord.7And he said to the people: Go, and compass the city, armed, marching before the ark of the Lord.…
Cross References
Joshua 6:5
And when the voice of the trumpet shall give a longer and broken tune, and shall sound in your ears, all the people shall shout together with a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the ground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which they shall stand.

Joshua 6:7
And he said to the people: Go, and compass the city, armed, marching before the ark of the Lord.

1 Samuel 4:3
And the people returned to the camp: and the ancients of Israel said: Why hath the Lord defeated us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch unto us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Silo, and let it come in the midst of us, that it may save us from the hand of our enemies.

Joshua 6:5
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