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So the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho and its king into your hands even though they are strong warriors. You shall march around the city with all the fighting men. Circle the city one time. Do this for six days. Seven priests shall carry seven special ram’s horns[a] in front of the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times with the priests blowing the ram’s horns.

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  1. Joshua 6:4 Literally ram’s horns of the jubilees. The account uses two different Hebrew words for ram’s horns: shofar, which is the usual word for ram’s horns, and yobel, a special name for the jubilee ram’s horns. The translation uses the rendering special ram’s horns when yobel is part of the expression. Since ram’s horn is the technical name of the instrument, ram’s horns remains the proper form of the name even when there is more than one horn.