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Then you are to spring up from the ambush and seize the city, and the Lord your God will give it into your hand. When you have taken the city, you are to set the city on fire. According to the word of the Lord you are to act in this way. Look, I have commanded you.”

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place for the ambush. They lay hidden on the west side of Ai, between Bethel and Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people of the main force.

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you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand.(A) When you have taken the city, set it on fire.(B) Do what the Lord has commanded.(C) See to it; you have my orders.”

Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush(D) and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai—but Joshua spent that night with the people.

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