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All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of `Ai.
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For Yehoshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of `Ai.
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Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Yisra'el took for prey to themselves, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Yehoshua.
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So Yehoshua burnt `Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
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The king of `Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the sun Yehoshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, to this day.
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Then Yehoshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Yisra'el, in Mount `Eval,
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as Moshe the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Yisra'el, as it is written in the book of the law of Moshe, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace-offerings.
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He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moshe, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Yisra'el.
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All Yisra'el, and their Zakenim and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the Kohanim the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the sojourner as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount `Eval; as Moshe the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Yisra'el.
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Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
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There was not a word of all that Moshe commanded, which Yehoshua didn't read before all the assembly of Yisra'el, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who were among them.