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.

¹And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, `Fear not, nor be affrighted, take with thee all the people of war, and rise, go up to Ai; see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land,

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!

²and thou hast done to Ai and to her king as thou hast done to Jericho and to her king; only, its spoil and its cattle ye spoil for yourselves; set for thee an ambush for the city at its rear.`

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

³And Joshua riseth, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai, and Joshua chooseth thirty thousand men, mighty ones of valour, and sendeth them away by night,

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

⁴and commandeth them, saying, `See, ye are liers in wait against the city, at the rear of the city, ye go not very far off from the city, and all of you have been prepared,

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

⁵and I and all the people who [are] with me draw near unto the city, and it hath come to pass when they come out to meet us as at the first, and we have fled 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,

⁶and they have come out after us till we have drawn them out of the city, for they say, They are fleeing before us as at the first, and we have fled before them,

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

⁷and ye rise from the ambush, and have occupied the city, and Jehovah your God hath given it into your hand;

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

⁸and it hath been, when ye capture the city, ye burn the city with fire, according to the word of Jehovah ye do, see, I have commanded you.`

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.

⁹And Joshua sendeth them away, and they go unto the ambush, and abide between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai; and Joshua lodgeth on that night in the midst of the people.

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

¹⁰And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and inspecteth the people, and goeth up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to 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.

¹¹and all the people of war who [are] with him have gone up, and draw nigh and come in over-against the city, and encamp on the north of Ai; and the valley [is] between him and Ai.

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

¹²And he taketh about five thousand men, and setteth them an ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city;

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.

¹³and they set the people, all the camp which [is] on the north of the city, and its rear on the west of the city, and Joshua goeth on that night into the midst of the valley.

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.

¹⁴And it cometh to pass, when the king of Ai seeth [it], that hasten, and rise early, and go out do the men of the city to meet Israel for battle, he and all his people, at the appointed season, at the front of the plain, and he hath not known that an ambush [is] against him, on the rear of the city.

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

¹⁵And Joshua and all Israel [seem] stricken before them, and flee the way of the wilderness,

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

¹⁶and all the people who [are] in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua, and are drawn away out of the city,

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.

¹⁷and there hath not been left a man in Ai and Bethel who hath not gone out after Israel, and they leave the city open, and pursue after Israel.

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.

¹⁸And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, `Stretch out with the javelin which [is] in thy hand towards Ai, for into thy hand I give it;` and Joshua stretcheth out with the javelin which [is] in his hand toward the city,

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.

¹⁹and the ambush hath risen [with] haste, out of its place, and they run at the stretching out of his hand, and go into the city, and capture it, and hasten, and burn the city with fire.

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.

²⁰And the men of Ai look behind them, and see, and lo, the smoke of the city hath gone up unto the heavens, and there hath not been in them power to flee hither and thither — and the people who are fleeing to the wilderness have turned against the pursuer, —

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.

²¹and Joshua and all Israel have seen that the ambush hath captured the city, and that the smoke of the city hath gone up, and they turn back and smite the men of Ai;

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.

²²and these have come out from the city to meet them, and they are in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that, and they smite them till he hath not left to them a remnant and escaped one;

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

²³and the king of Ai they caught alive, and bring him near unto Joshua.

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.

²⁴And it cometh to pass, at Israel`s finishing to slay all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them (and they fall all of them by the mouth of the sword till their consumption), that all Israel turn back to Ai, and smite it by the mouth of the sword;

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

²⁵and all who fall during the day, of men and of women, are twelve thousand — all men of Ai.

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

²⁶And Joshua hath not brought back his hand which he stretched out with the javelin till that he hath devoted all the inhabitants of Ai;

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

²⁷only, the cattle and the spoil of that city have Israel spoiled for themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which He commanded Joshua.

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

²⁸And Joshua burneth Ai, and maketh it a heap age-during — a desolation 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.

²⁹and the king of Ai he hath hanged on the tree till even-time, and at the going in of the sun hath Joshua commanded, and they take down his carcase from the tree, and cast it unto the opening of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones till this day.

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

³⁰Then doth Joshua build an altar to Jehovah, God of Israel, in mount Ebal,

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.

³¹as Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses — an altar of whole stones, over which he hath not waved iron — and they cause to go up upon it burnt-offerings to Jehovah, and sacrifice peace-offerings;

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

³²and he writeth there on the stones the copy of the law of Moses, which he hath written in the presence of the sons 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.

³³And all Israel, and its elders, and authorities, and its judges, are standing on this side and on that of the ark, over-against the priests, the Levites, bearing the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the sojourner as the native, half of them over-against mount Gerizim, and the half of them over-against mount Ebal, as Moses servant of Jehovah commanded to bless the people of Israel at the first.

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.

³⁴And afterwards he hath proclaimed all the words of the law, the blessing and the reviling, according to all that is written in the book of the law;

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.

³⁵there hath not been a thing of all that Moses commanded which Joshua hath not proclaimed before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the infants, and the sojourner who is going in their midst.