²⁰ When the trumpets sounded,^(A) the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout,^(B) the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.^{(C) 21} They devoted^(D) the city to the Lord and destroyed^(E) with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

²² Joshua said to the two men^(F) who had spied out^(G) the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.^(H)”