7They said to the people, |Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark.|


In Context

4 Seven 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.

5 It 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; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.|

6 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, |Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh.|

7 They said to the people, |Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark.|

8 It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh advanced, and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them.

9 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.

Joshua 6:7 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:7And he ordered the people, "Advance! March around the city, with the armed guard going ahead of the ark of the Lord ."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:7And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:7And they said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Jehovah.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7And he said to the people, Pass on, go round the city, and they that are armed shall pass on before the ark of Jehovah.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:7And they said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7And he said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7and He said unto the people, 'Pass over, and compass the city, and he who is armed doth pass over before the ark of Jehovah.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:7And he said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.