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Joshua 6:16-18
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16 The seventh time around, the priests blew the rams’ horns, and Joshua told the army,[a] “Give the battle cry,[b] for the Lord is handing the city over to you![c] 17 The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the Lord;[d] only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies[e] we sent. 18 But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for God. If you take any of it, then you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster.[f]

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  1. Joshua 6:16 tn Heb “the people.”
  2. Joshua 6:16 tn Or “the shout.”
  3. Joshua 6:16 tn Heb “for the Lord has given to you the city.” The verbal form is a perfect, probably indicating certitude here.
  4. Joshua 6:17 tn Or “dedicated to the Lord.”sn To make the city set apart for the Lord would involve annihilating all the people and animals and placing its riches in the Lord’s treasury (vv. 19, 21, 24).
  5. Joshua 6:17 tn Heb “messengers.”
  6. Joshua 6:18 tn Heb “Only you keep [away] from what is set apart [to God] so that you might not, as you are setting [it] apart, take some of what is set apart [to God] and turn the camp of Israel into what is set apart [to destruction by God] and bring trouble on it.”
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