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you get up from the ambush and seize the city, because the Lord your God will give it into your control. When you’ve taken the city, set it on fire, just as the Lord ordered. Look! These are your orders!”[a] So Joshua sent them out, and they set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai.

Joshua spent that night in the camp[b] among the army.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:8 Lit. Look! I have commanded you!
  2. Joshua 8:9 The Heb. lacks in the camp

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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