18. But you, just keep yourselves from the things under the ban. Otherwise you would make yourselves accursed by taking of the things under the ban, and so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it.
19. All the silver and gold and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to Adonai, and must go into the treasury of Adonai.”
20. So when the shofarot blew, the people shouted. When the people heard the sound of the shofar, the people shouted a loud shout—and the wall fell down flat! So the people went up into the city, everyone straight ahead, and they captured the city.
21. They utterly destroyed everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, ox, sheep and donkey—with the edge of the sword.