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Joshua 6:20Josh.6.20

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.

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Hebrew original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Le peuple poussa des cris, et les sacrificateurs sonnèrent des trompettes. Lorsque le peuple entendit le son de la trompette, il poussa de grands cris, et la muraille s'écroula; le peuple monta dans la ville, chacun devant soi. Ils s'emparèrent de la ville,

KJV

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.

Patristic reading

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    Fragmenta In Jeremiam (In Catenis)

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    Contra Collatorem

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  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)

    i principes mundi, ut in Josue in tubarum sonitu, «Corruerunt muri Jericho, [Note: [Col. 1003] 16 Jos. VI, 20.] ,»quod in doctrina praedicatorum humiliati sunt principes mundi. Murenulae sunt ornamenta virtutum, ut in Cantico: «Murenulas aureas faciemus tibi [Note: [Col.…

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