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So about three thousand men from among the people went up there, but they fled from the men of Ai. The men of Ai struck dead about thirty-six of them. They pursued them from the city gate as far as Shebarim,[a] and they struck them dead on the way down the descent. So the hearts of the people melted and turned to water.

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell down with his face to the ground in front of the Ark of the Lord until evening—he and the elders of Israel. They also threw dust on their heads.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 7:5 Shebarim may mean the quarries.