The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
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The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
And they circled the city one time on the second day, and they returned the camp. Thus they did six days.
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The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
And the second day they compassed the citie once, and returned into the host: thus they did sixe dayes.
And they went round about the city the second day once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days.
And they compass the city on the second day once, and turn back to the camp; thus they have done six days.
And they go around the city once on the second day, and return to the camp; thus they have done [for] six days.
They marched around the city one time the second day and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
And they circled the city one time on the second day, and they returned the camp. Thus they did six days.
And on the second day they went round the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days.
The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days.
So on the second day they marched around the city, circling it once, and returned to the camp. They did this for a total of six days.
The second day they went all round the town once, and then went back to their tents: and so they did for six days.
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp; so they did six days.
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 29 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →
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Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 13 Hebrew tokens and 11 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
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Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 29 words vs World English Bible 18. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וַיָּסֹ֨בּוּ אֶת הָעִ֜יר בַּיּ֤וֹם הַשֵּׁנִי֙ פַּ֣עַם אַחַ֔ת וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה כֹּ֥ה עָשׂ֖וּ שֵׁ֥שֶׁת יָמִֽים
The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
World English Bible · Public Domain
καί ἀποἔρχομαι πάλιν εἰς ὁ παρεμβολή οὕτως ποιέω ἐπί ἕξ ἡμέρα
And all the rest of the multitude compassed the city six times from within a short distance, and went back again into the camp; this they did six days.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
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וְאַסְחָרוּ יַת קַרְתָּא בְּיוֹמָא תִנְיָנָא זִמְנָא חָדָא וְתָבוּ לְמַשְׁרִיתָא כְּדֵין עֲבָדוּ שִׁתָּא יוֹמִין:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is paʻam (“time”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 6:14 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.