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All the people that fell on that day, both men and women, [were] twelve thousand--all the inhabitants of Ai.
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For Joshua did not draw back his hand that was stretched out with the sword until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
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Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of Yahweh that Joshua commanded.
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So Joshua burned Ai and made it an everlasting heap of rubbish, a desolate place until this day.
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The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening, and as the sun went down Joshua commanded [them], and they brought down his dead body from the tree. Then they threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and they raised over it a great heap of stones [that remains] to this day.
Israel Renews the Covenant
30 Then Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal for Yahweh the God of Israel,
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as Moses Yahweh's servant commanded the {Israelites}, as [it is] written in the scroll of the law of Moses: "an altar of unhewn stones [on] which no one has {wielded} an iron implement." And they offered burnt offerings on it and sacrificed fellowship offerings.
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And there Joshua wrote on the stones [a] copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the {Israelites}.
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Then all Israel, {foreigner as well as native}, with the elders, officials, and judges stood {on either side} of the ark before the priests and the Levites, who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. Half of them [stood] in front of Mount Gerizim, and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses Yahweh's servant had commanded before to bless the people of Israel.
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And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the curses, according to all that was written in the scroll of the law.
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There was not a word from all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before the assembly of all Israel, and the women, the little children, and the traveling foreigners among them.