²⁰ So the people shouted, and ^[a]the priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the ^(A)wall fell down ^[b]beneath itself, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ^[c]ahead, and they took the city. ^21 (B)And they devoted to destruction everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

²² Now to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “^(C)Go into the harlot’s house and bring the woman and all she has out of there, as you have sworn to her.”