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So then, take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.

So Joshua summoned the twelve men whom he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe.

so that this may be a reminder among you. When your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do these stones mean to you?'

So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of Yahweh is strong, so that you may fear Yahweh your God forever."

So Joshua made knives of flint, and he circumcised the Israelites at the hill of the foreskins.

The commander of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.

You will march around the city, all the warriors circling the city once; you will do so for six days.

So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry the trumpets of the rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh."

As for you, keep away from the things devoted to destruction so that you do not take them and bring about your own destruction, making the camp of Israel an object for destruction, bringing trouble upon it.

So the people shouted, and they blew on the trumpets. And when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout, and the wall fell flat. The people charged, each one straight ahead into the city, and they captured it.

So the young men who were spies went and brought Rahab and her father and mother, her brothers, and all who were with her. And they brought all her family out and set them outside the camp of Israel.

So Yahweh was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.

So about three thousand from the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought forward Israel, tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was selected by lot.

So Joshua and all the fighting men went up immediately to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand of the best fighting men and sent them by night.

They will come out after us until we draw them away from the city, because they will think, ‘They are fleeing from us as before.' So we will flee from them.

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of the ambush, and they sat between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent the night with the people.

So they stationed the forces; all the army was north of the city while the rear guard was west. But Joshua went that night to the middle of the valley.

So Joshua burned Ai and made it an everlasting heap of rubbish, a desolate place until this day.