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3 And Joshua rises, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooses thirty thousand men, mighty men of valor, and sends them away by night, 4 and commands them, saying, “See, you are ones lying in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, you do not go very far off from the city, and all of you have been prepared, 5 and I and all the people who [are] with me draw near to the city, and it has come to pass, when they come out to meet us as at the first, and we have fled before them, 6 and they have come out after us until we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them, 7 and you rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and your God YHWH has given it into your hand; 8 and it has been, when you capture the city, you burn the city with fire, you do according to the word of YHWH, see, I have commanded you.” 9 And Joshua sends them away, and they go to the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai; and Joshua lodges on that night in the midst of the people. Joshua 8:3-9, Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press.
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