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“This is the plan,” he explained to them. “When our main army attacks, the men of Ai will come out to fight as they did before, and we will run away. We will let them chase us until they have all left the city; for they will say, ‘The Israelis are running away again just as they did before!’ Then you will jump up from your ambush and enter the city, for the Lord will give it to you.

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I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them. They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are running away from us as they did before.’ So when we flee from them, you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand.(A)

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