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But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
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When Israel had finished slaughtering all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
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And all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.
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For Joshua did not 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 Israel took as their booty, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
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So Joshua burned Ai, and made it for ever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.
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And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.
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Then Joshua built an altar in Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,
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as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, "an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man has lifted an iron tool"; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
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And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.
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And all Israel, sojourner as well as homeborn, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Ger'izim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.