Paragraph 6:15–21

6:15a

Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn: This verse connects to the previous verse with a Hebrew phrase that the Berean Standard Bible indicates this with the word Then. The Hebrew phrase is literally “and it was.” It marks the next event in the storyline. If it is natural in your language to indicate the next event in the storyline here, then you should do so.

they: The pronoun they includes Joshua, the priests, and the army who walked around the town.

6:15b

and marched around the city seven times in the same manner: They walked around the town in the same order as they did on the previous days. On this day they walked around the town seven times.

6:15c

That was the only day they circled the city seven times: The information that they walked seven times around the town on the seventh day is repeated for emphasis. This indicates that this day was different than the preceding days.

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