1 PLS Ke Myao Kodon tae sin Yosua ke agansir ke, tadanom, finan yagud manom go amon rigav tentara faran fanae nahai Ai gatav utuv ke. Enefaran one raja Ai grae kota grae, one rigav faran grae go ke finakeden. BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
2 PLS One Ai raja ke e rigav grae, Yerikho rigav ke usansir kahane ni manam, nahav ke nahav ni rahomake wan-wan tae usanid, manae rigav bohos bae one kota maramin naha badan. BSB BSB: And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
3 PLS Yosua tae hasir ke e tentara faran grae Ai ke. Yosua tae tiga puluh ribu kwae gagae, rigav tavda gwansir bisimhui rae. BSB BSB: So Joshua and the whole army set out to attack Ai. Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out at night
4 PLS Ke Myao Kodon tae sin agansir ke,"Darid manae ke goni one avhaim Ai mar amin ke dadud. BSB BSB: with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.
5 PLS Nohov rigav etoh grae one avhaim ke otaimaken, ke nahav ani nigiv ke ufi nenae sarkotae nigi ni nahav reftav nake tarhaikon, mar amin ke. BSB BSB: Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.
6 PLS Nahav ni naha badaimake avhaim ke motanae sarkotae onake nahav ni nagav, reftav nake tarhae omkon tarhasir kahane ni dimake. BSB BSB: They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,
7 PLS Onake gi ni farnae hamjaen one avhaim gi ni famjaen. BSB BSB: you are to rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 PLS One kota ke hanae yakimake, finan ganggu manom yod ani famumjaen one avhaim ke. BSB BSB: And when you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do as the LORD has commanded! See, I have given you orders.”
9 PLS Yosua tae e rigav ke suru masir gu havansir ke Betel utuv Ai, utuv grae sin aganae rasir ke. BSB BSB: So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.
10 PLS Ke Yusua ni ranae bidamdirae, 3 rigav kehane bane nenae amginae hasir ke, Israel rigav hakomaton mudra sir gu naha tae nahav marake gaunae hafansir, Ai ke. BSB BSB: Joshua got up early the next morning and mobilized his men, and he and the elders of Israel marched before them up to Ai.
11 PLS One amon rigav tae one avhaim reftav athav ke yakasir ke. Nahav ni Ai avhaim kota utara amin ke af gamhanton mamginae bain ke. BSB BSB: Then all the troops who were with him marched up and approached the city. They arrived in front of Ai and camped to the north of it, with the valley between them and the city.
12 PLS Yosua bae e amon rigav lima ratus ribu rigav kahane ni Bethel, gi Ai utuv ke athav ke baka-baka. Manae bain ke barat amin ke. BSB BSB: Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
13 PLS One tuv Yosua e amon rigav barat amin, utar amin, mar amin enefaran ni bain ke. BSB BSB: So the forces were stationed with the main camp to the north of the city and the rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.
14 PLS Onake raja Ai tae One Israel Rigav ke nahanae, one avhaim Ai rigav tae amon nahav ke hasir ke bidamdimosrae. Manae nahav ni nyam haser ke rigav etoh bae mar amin ke barnake bae. BSB BSB: When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, he hurried out early in the morning with the men of the city to engage them in battle at an appointed place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set up against him behind the city.
15 PLS Yosua grae e rigav etoh auwat grae nahav reftav nake tarhasir ke. BSB BSB: Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness.
16 PLS One avhaim rigav tae nahav tae. Enefaran ani nahav ke kirkai fishasir gu hana avhaim nake argir kisir ke nahav merhau mahasir ke. BSB BSB: Then all the men of Ai were summoned to pursue them, and they followed Joshua and were drawn away from the city.
17 PLS Maidav pape bada hasere one Ai ke Betel ke, Enefaran ni naha ke kirkai fishasir ke Israel rigav ke. BSB BSB: Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
18 PLS Myao Kodon tae sin Yosua ke agansir ke, go ni farke baisuwane Ai avhaim amin ke huni denam disir ke Yosua tae one kahane Myao Kodon ani agansir sin marani huni disir keAi amin ke. BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,
19 PLS One kota Ai amin ke barnakir rigav tae Yosua ni huni disir gu nahav tae oke nahanae fatar ani bura hanae one avhaim ke kota ke yod ani famsur ke. BSB BSB: and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.
20 PLS Onake one Ai rigav ni marke arkami nahansir ke one ke nake idaid bokon ani faransir ke utuv nake, onake nahav ni kirkai fishasir. BSB BSB: When the men of Ai turned and looked back, the smoke of the city was rising into the sky. They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now turned against their pursuers.
21 PLS Onake, Yosua ni burahavansir rigav grae marke nahansir nagafrigaf maraminke bakanae badahane rigav ani Ai kota itkafan nenae, nahafni okomae bura arakohomae harma yakanae Ai rigafke usansirke. BSB BSB: When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned around and struck down the men of Ai.
22 PLS Ke Israel rigav etoh ani one kota Ai nake murgumanae Ai rigav ke usansir ke maidav pape modohaser ke, nahafni Israel rigafke rohone kaudma-rohone kaudma marakirgu Israel rigav, ani usansirke. BSB BSB: Meanwhile, those in the ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces on both sides. So Israel struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained.
23 PLS Manae raja Ai maidav bae asnae fishasir ke arkir gu Yosua ke. BSB BSB: But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.
24 PLS Israel rigav ani AI rigafke, nahafke kirkai fishasir rigafke nahafni usanenae tirmanae, kenahafni AI afhaimke hasirke parae sefani gafasangkomainke. BSB BSB: When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and put it to the sword as well.
25 PLS Israel rigavani onatafni usansirbae Rigafnake hanae urakem enefaran kamon usansirgu ganhasirke nahafenefaran, One kota fohabke bai AI rigav dua belas ribu. BSB BSB: A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.
26 PLS Yosua ni tarasir waru uru ke fara haser kisir ke bai faidifai ke Ai rigav enefaran ni naha usaden nenae ke. BSB BSB: Joshua did not draw back the hand that held his battle lance until he had devoted to destruction all who lived in Ai.
27 PLS Manae one Ai rigav wan-wan saisi bae Israel rigav ni taifasir ke Myao Kodon ni agansir sin marani. BSB BSB: Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.
28 PLS Yosua tae one kota Ai ke fansur ke, one tuftae famsurgu hatae maidav kisirke enaigu tae senedafan. BSB BSB: So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
29 PLS Raja Ai tae tohod ke armanae dafaigu homsir gu gwansir ke one Ai afhaimfohabke otake Aivat utuv ke tohod tamin ani raki faramae gonae fomhasir ke onetuf senedafan. BSB BSB: He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.
32 PLS One avnake Musa ni fakomai sin oke ririndasir ke one fohav ke dafai batu-batu bainam ke. BSB BSB: And there in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.
33 PLS Ke Israel rigav hakomaton tae amon madev rigav Israel rigav ke masomhae ni atur manae tabut fanae hasir ke rigav ani, Lewi rigav it nake, Israel rigav grae kag rigav grae enefaran nahav ni fanae hasir ke hanae Gunung Gerizim ke hanae yakasir ke hanae Ebal Gunung ke yakasir ke, Musa ni againsir sin marani, onake Israel riga ke berkati masir ke Myao Kodon ani. BSB BSB: All Israel, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the LORD facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded earlier, to bless the people of Israel.
34 PLS One kahane sin marani tirmanae, kutuk sin gera berkat sin grae amginsir ke Myao Kodon sin Musa ke fidasir sin av. BSB BSB: Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.
35 PLS Maidav pape ni modo haser berkat sin kutuk sin Musa ni ririndasir sin ke enefaran ni Israel rigav reftav amginsir. BSB BSB: There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua failed to read before the whole assembly of Israel, including the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who lived among them.
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