Liber Iosue

Iosue, chapter 6, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 6 Vulgate

   1 Iericho autem erat munita et clausa coram filiis Israel, et nul lus egredi audebat aut ingredi.
   2 Dixitque Dominus ad Iosue: "Ecce dedi in manu tua Iericho et regem eius omnesque fortes viros.
   3 Circuite urbem cuncti bellatores semel per diem: sic facietis sex diebus.
   4 Septem sacerdotes portabunt septem bucinas, cornua arietum, ante arcam foederis. Die autem septimo septies circuibitis civitatem, et sacerdotes clangent bucinis.
   5 Cumque insonuerit vox tubae longior et in auribus vestris increpuerit, conclamabit omnis populus vociferatione maxima, et muri funditus corruent civitatis; ingredienturque singuli per locum, contra quem steterint"
   6 Vocavit ergo Iosue filius Nun sacerdotes et dixit ad eos: "Tollite arcam foederis, et septem alii sacerdotes tollant septem bucinas et incedant ante arcam Domini"
   7 Ad populum quoque ait: "Vadite et circuite civitatem, et viri armati praecedant arcam Domini"
   8 Cumque Iosue verba finisset, septem sacerdotes septem bucinis clangebant ante arcam foederis Domini,
   9 omnisque armatus exercitus praecedebat sacerdotes clangentes, reliquum vulgus arcam sequebatur, ac bucinis omnia concrepabant.
   10 Praeceperat autem Iosue populo dicens: "Non clamabitis, nec audietur vox vestra, neque ullus sermo ex ore vestro egredietur, donec veniat dies, in quo dicam vobis: Clamate et vociferamini"
   11 Circuivit ergo arca Domini civitatem per diem, et reversi in castra pernoctaverunt ibi.
   12 Igitur, Iosue de nocte consurgente, tulerunt sacerdotes arcam Domini,
   13 et septem ex eis septem bucinas, cornua arietum, praecedebantque arcam Domini ambulantes atque clangentes, et armatus populus ibat ante eos; vulgus autem reliquum sequebatur arcam, bucinis personantibus.
   14 Circuieruntque civitatem secundo die semel et reversi sunt in castra; sic fecerunt sex diebus.
   15 Die autem septimo, diluculo consurgentes circuierunt urbem eodem modo septies; in illo die tantum circuierunt urbem septies.
   16 Cumque septimo circuitu clangerent bucinis sacerdotes, dixit Iosue ad populum: "Vociferamini! Tradidit enim vobis Dominus civitatem.
   17 Sitque civitas anathema, ipsa et omnia, quae in ea sunt, Domino; sola Rahab meretrix vivat cum universis, qui cum ea in domo sunt: abscondit enim nuntios, quos direximus.
   18 Vos autem cavete, ne de anathemate quippiam auferatis et sitis praevaricationis rei, et omnia castra Israel anathema sint atque turbentur.
   19 Quidquid auri et argenti fuerit et vasorum aeneorum ac ferri, Domino consecretur repositum in thesauris eius"
   20 Igitur, omni vociferante populo et clangentibus tubis, postquam in aures multitudinis vox sonitusque increpuit, muri ilico corruerunt; et ascendit unusquisque per locum, qui contra se erat, ceperuntque civitatem.
   21 Et interfecerunt omnia, quae erant in ea, a viro usque ad mulierem, ab infante usque ad senem; boves quoque et oves et asinos in ore gladii percusserunt.
   22 Duobus autem viris, qui exploratores missi fuerant, dixit Iosue: "Ingredimini domum mulieris meretricis et producite eam et omnia, quae illius sunt, sicut illi iuramento firmastis"
   23 Ingressique iuvenes eduxerunt Rahab et parentes eius, fratres quoque et cunctam supellectilem ac cognationem illius et extra castra Israel manere fecerunt.
   24 Urbem autem et omnia, quae erant in ea, succenderunt, absque argento et auro et vasis aeneis ac ferro, quae in aerarium domus Domini consecrarunt.
   25 Rahab vero meretricem et domum patris eius et omnia, quae habebat, fecit Iosue vivere; et habitavit in medio Israel usque in praesentem diem, eo quod absconderit nuntios, quos miserat Iosue, ut explorarent Iericho. In tempore illo imprecatus est Iosue dicens:
   26 "Maledictus vir coram Domino, qui suscitaverit et aedificaverit civitatem Iericho; in primogenito suo fundamenta illius faciet et in novissimo liberorum ponet portas eius"
   27 Fuit ergo Dominus cum Iosue, et nomen eius in omni terra vulgatum est.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
   2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
   3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
   4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
   5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye 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 ascend up every man straight before him.
   6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
   7 And 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.
   8 ¶ And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
   9 ¶ And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
   10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
   11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
   12 ¶ And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.
   13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
   14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
   15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
   16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.
   17 ¶ And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
   18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
   19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
   20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
   21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
   22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
   23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
   24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
   25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
   26 ¶ And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
   27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.