¹And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land:

¹In GOSPOD veli Jozuetu: Ne boj se in ne plaši se! Vzemi vse vojščake s seboj in vstani ter pojdi gori zoper Aj! Poglej, dal sem ti v roko kralja v Aju ter ljudstvo in mesto in deželo njegovo.

²And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.

²In stori Aju in njegovemu kralju, kakor si storil Jerihu in kralju njegovemu, samo njegov plen in živino njegovo si razdelite med seboj. Postavi si zasedo zadaj za mestom!

³So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them away by night.

³Vstane torej Jozue in vsi vojščaki, da bi šli gori proti Aju; Jozue pa izbere trideset tisoč mož, krepkih junakov, in jih odpošlje po noči

⁴And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

⁴ter jim zapove, rekoč: Pazite, vi bodete v zasedi zadaj za mestom; ne hodite pa daleč od mesta, temuč bodite vsi pripravljeni.

⁵And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

⁵Jaz pa in vse ljudstvo, ki je z menoj, se približamo mestu. In ko pridejo ven zoper nas kakor onkrat, bomo bežali pred njimi;

⁶(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

⁶in spusté se za nami, in tako jih odtegnemo od mesta; kajti poreko: Beže pred nami kakor poprej. In ko bomo bežali pred njimi,

⁷Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

⁷planite iz zasede in zavzemite mesto, zakaj GOSPOD, vaš Bog, vam ga izda v roke.

⁸And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

⁸In ko vzamete mesto, ga zažgite; delajte po besedi GOSPODOVI! Glejte, jaz sem vam to zapovedal.

⁹Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

⁹Pošlje jih torej Jozue, in so šli v zasedo in ostali med Betelom in Ajem, na večerni strani mesta Aja. Jozue pa je prenočil med ljudstvom.

¹⁰And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

¹⁰Zjutraj pa vstane Jozue zgodaj in prešteje ljudstvo in gre s starešinami Izraelovimi ljudstvu na čelu proti Aju.

¹¹And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.

¹¹Tudi vse vojaško moštvo, ki je bilo pri njem, gre gori ž njim, in približajo se ter pridejo pred mesto in se utabore na polnočni strani Aja, da je bila le dolina med njimi in Ajem.

¹²And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

¹²Vzel pa je okoli pet tisoč mož in jih postavil v zasedo med Betelom in Ajem, na zahodni strani mesta.

¹³And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

¹³In postavijo moštvo vsega tabora, da je bilo na polnočni strani mesta, zasednike pa na zahodni strani mesta. In Jozue je šel tisto noč v sredo doline.

¹⁴And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

¹⁴Ko pa vidi to kralj v Aju, pohite mestni možje ter vstanejo zgodaj in planejo ven, da se bojujejo z Izraelom, kralj in vse ljudstvo njegovo, na določen kraj pred ravnino; a ni vedel, da je zaseda zoper njega zadaj za mestom.

¹⁵And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

¹⁵Jozue pa in ves Izrael zbeži kakor premagan pred njimi po poti proti puščavi.

¹⁶And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

¹⁶In skličejo vse ljudstvo, ki je bilo v mestu, da udero za njimi; in spuste za Jozuetom in se ločijo od mesta.

¹⁷And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

¹⁷In ni ostalo enega moža v Aju ali Betelu, ki ne bi bil šel tirat Izraela; mesto pa so pustili odprto in se gnali za Izraelom.

¹⁸And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.

¹⁸Tedaj reče GOSPOD Jozuetu: Vzdigni sulico, ki jo imaš v roki, proti Aju; kajti dam ti ga v roko. In Jozue vzdigne sulico, ki jo je imel v roki, proti mestu.

¹⁹And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.

¹⁹In zasedniki se hitro vzdignejo s svojega mesta in teko, bržko je iztegnil roko, in pridejo v mesto ter se ga polaste in ga precej zažgo.

²⁰And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

²⁰Ko se pa ajski možje ozro, vidijo, in glej, dim se vali iz mesta do neba; njim pa ni mogoče bežati ne sem, ne tja. A ljudstvo izraelsko, ki je bežalo proti puščavi, se obrne in plane nad svoje preganjalce.

²¹And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.

²¹Ko namreč vidi Jozue in ves Izrael, da so zasedniki dobili mesto ter da se vali dim iz njega, se zopet obrnejo in pobijajo može iz Aja.

²²And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

²²In zasedniki pridejo iz mesta, njim nasproti, tako da Izraelci zajamejo Ajance po tej in po oni strani in jih porazijo, da nihče ni preostal, ne utekel.

²³And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

²³Ajskega kralja pa ujamejo živega in ga pripeljejo k Jozuetu.

²⁴And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

²⁴In ko je Izrael pobil vse prebivalce mesta Aja, na polju in v puščavi, kamor so bili za njimi pridrli, in so vsi popadali z ostrino meča, da jih je bilo konec, se obrne ves Izrael proti Aju in ga pokončajo z ostrino meča.

²⁵And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

²⁵In vseh, ki so padli tisti dan, mož in žen, je bilo dvanajst tisoč, vsi iz Aja.

²⁶For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

²⁶Jozue pa ni potegnil nazaj roke, s katero je vzdignil sulico, dokler ni s prokletjem uničil vseh ajskih prebivalcev.

²⁷Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

²⁷Samo živino in plen mesta so si Izraelci razdelili med seboj, po besedi GOSPODOVI, ki jo je zapovedal Jozuetu.

²⁸And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day.

²⁸Tako je Jozue požgal Aj in napravil iz njega grobljišče za vselej, podrtino, ki je do današnjega dne.

²⁹And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day.

²⁹Ajskega kralja pa je obesil na drevesu do večera; in ko je solnce zahajalo, ukaže Jozue, naj snamejo truplo njegovo z drevesa, in vrgli so ga ob vhodu v mestna vrata ter napravili nad njim veliko grobljo, do današnjega dne.

³⁰Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,

³⁰Tedaj zgradi Jozue oltar GOSPODU, Bogu Izraelovemu, na gori Ebalu,

³¹As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.

³¹prav kakor je sinovom Izraelovim zapovedal Mojzes, hlapec GOSPODOV, kakor je pisano v knjigi Mojzesovega zakona, oltar iz neobdelanih kamenov, nad katerimi niso vihteli železa; in prinašali so na njem žgalne žrtve GOSPODU in darovali mirovne daritve.

³²And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

³²In ondi napiše na kamene opis Mojzesovega zakona, ki ga je pisal vpričo sinov Izraelovih.

³³And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

³³In ves Izrael s starejšinami in oblastniki in sodniki svojimi je stal ob tej in oni strani skrinje pred obličjem duhovnikov, levitov, ki so nosili skrinjo zaveze GOSPODOVE, tujci in domačini; polovica njih proti gori Garizimu in polovica proti gori Ebalu, kakor je zapovedal Mojzes, hlapec GOSPODOV, da naj blagoslove Izraelovo ljudstvo najprvo.

³⁴And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

³⁴In potem je čital vse besede postave, blagoslov in prokletje, vse, kakor je pisano v knjigi postave.Ni bilo besede iz tega, kar je zapovedal Mojzes, ki je ne bi bil omenil Jozue pred vsem zborom Izraelovim in pred ženami in otročiči in tujci, ki so bivali med njimi.

³⁵There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

³⁵Ni bilo besede iz tega, kar je zapovedal Mojzes, ki je ne bi bil omenil Jozue pred vsem zborom Izraelovim in pred ženami in otročiči in tujci, ki so bivali med njimi.