¹Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

¹Ja Issand ütles Joosuale: 'Ära karda ja ära kohku! Võta enesega kaasa kõik sõjamehed, asu teele ja mine üles Aisse. Vaata, ma annan su kätte Ai kuninga ja tema rahva, samuti tema linna ja maa.

²You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

²Talita Aiga ja selle kuningaga, nagu sa talitasid Jeerikoga ja selle kuningaga! Siiski, selle saak ja karjad riisuge endile! Pane varitsejad linna taha!'

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

³Ja Joosua asus teele, samuti kõik sõjamehed, et minna üles Aisse. Ja Joosua valis kolmkümmend tuhat meest, vahvat võitlejat, ja saatis need öösel minema.

⁴He commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

⁴Ja ta andis neile käsu, öeldes: 'Vaadake, teil tuleb varitseda linna tagantpoolt. Ärge minge linnast väga kaugele ja olge kõik valmis!

⁵I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

⁵Mina ja kogu see rahvas, kes on koos minuga, läheneme linnale; ja kui nad tulevad välja meie vastu nagu eelmisel korral, siis me põgeneme nende eest.

⁶They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,

⁶Nemad tulevad siis välja meile järele, kuni me oleme viinud nad linnast eemale, sest nad ütlevad: Nad põgenevad meie eest nagu eelmisel korral. Nõnda me põgeneme nende eest,

⁷and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

⁷aga teie tõuske varitsuspaigast ja vallutage linn, sest Issand, teie Jumal, annab selle teie kätte.

⁸It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the word of Yahweh. Behold, I have commanded you.”

⁸Ja kui te olete linna vallutanud, siis süüdake linn tulega põlema! Tehke Issanda sõna peale! Vaata, ma olen andnud teile käsu.'

⁹Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

⁹Ja Joosua saatis nad minema ja nad läksid varitsuspaika ning asusid Peeteli ja Ai vahele, Aist lääne poole; aga Joosua viibis sel ööl rahva keskel.

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

¹⁰Ja Joosua tõusis hommikul vara ning luges rahva üle. Siis läksid tema ja Iisraeli vanemad rahva ees üles Ai poole.

¹¹All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.

¹¹Ja kõik sõjamehed, kes olid koos temaga, läksid üles, lähenesid ning jõudsid linna ette; nad lõid leeri üles Aist põhja poole, nende ja Ai vahel oli org.

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

¹²Siis ta võttis ligi viis tuhat meest ning pani need varitsema Peeteli ja Ai vahele, linnast lääne poole.

¹³So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

¹³Nõnda seati rahvas üles, kogu leer, mis oli linnast põhja pool, ja järelvägi linnast lääne pool; Joosua aga viibis sel ööl orus.

¹⁴It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

¹⁴Kui Ai kuningas seda nägi, siis tema ja kogu ta rahvas ruttas ja valmistus varakult, ja linna mehed läksid seatud ajal sõtta Iisraeli vastu Araba poole; aga ta ei teadnud, et tal linna taga olid varitsejad.

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

¹⁵Ja Joosua ja kogu Iisrael laskis end neist lüüa ning nad põgenesid kõrbe poole.

¹⁶All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

¹⁶Siis hüüti kokku kõik linnas olev rahvas neid taga ajama; ja nad ajasid taga Joosuat, aga nõnda meelitati nad linnast eemale.

¹⁷There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

¹⁷Aisse ja Peetelisse ei jäänud ainsatki meest, kes ei olnud läinud Iisraelile järele; nad jätsid linna lahti ja ajasid Iisraeli taga.

¹⁸Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

¹⁸Siis Issand ütles Joosuale: 'Siruta oda, mis sul käes on, Ai poole, sest ma annan selle su kätte!' Ja Joosua sirutas oda, mis tal käes oli, linna poole.

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

¹⁹Siis varitsejad tõusid kiiresti oma paigast ja jooksid, niipea kui ta oli oma käe välja sirutanud, ja tungisid linna ning vallutasid selle ja süütasid ruttu linna tulega põlema.

²⁰When 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. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

²⁰Ja kui Ai mehed pöördusid ümber ja vaatasid tagasi, ennäe, siis tõusis linnast suits taeva poole. Siis ei olnud neil enam jaksu põgeneda sinna ega tänna, sest see rahvas, kes põgenes kõrbe poole, pöördus ümber, tagaajajaile vastu.

²¹When 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 killed the men of Ai.

²¹Kui Joosua ja kogu Iisrael nägi, et varitsejad olid linna vallutanud ja et linnast tõusis suits, siis pöördusid nad tagasi ja lõid Ai mehi,

²²The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

²²kellele tuldi linnast vastu, nõnda et nad jäid Iisraeli keskele: ühed olid siitpoolt ja teised sealtpoolt, kes lõid neid maha, kuni neile ei jäänud ainsatki põgenikku ega pääsenut.

²³They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

²³Ja nad võtsid Ai kuninga kinni elusana ning viisid ta Joosua juurde.

²⁴It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

²⁴Ja kui Iisrael oli tapnud kõik Ai elanikud väljal, kõrbes, kus nad neid taga ajasid, ja need kõik olid viimseni langenud mõõgatera läbi, siis pöördus kogu Iisrael Ai poole ja lõi seda mõõgateraga.

²⁵All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

²⁵Ja kõiki sel päeval langenuid, niihästi mehi kui naisi, oli kaksteist tuhat, kõik Ai elanikud,

²⁶For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

²⁶sest Joosua ei tõmmanud tagasi oma kätt, millega ta oda oli välja sirutanud, kuni kõik Ai elanikud olid hävitatud sootuks.

²⁷Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.

²⁷Ainult karjad ja selle linna saagi riisus Iisrael enesele Issanda sõna peale, mille ta oli andnud Joosuale käsuna.

²⁸So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

²⁸Ja Joosua põletas ära Ai linna ning tegi selle igaveseks kivivaremeks, mahajäetuks kuni tänapäevani.

²⁹He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.

²⁹Aga Ai kuninga ta poos puusse ja see jäi sinna kuni õhtuni; alles kui päike loojus, andis Joosua käsu ja laip võeti puust maha ning visati linna värava ette; ja tema peale kuhjati suur kivihunnik, mis on seal tänapäevani.

³⁰Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

³⁰Siis Joosua ehitas Eebali mäel altari Issandale, Iisraeli Jumalale,

³¹as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings.

³¹nagu Mooses, Issanda sulane, oli käskinud Iisraeli lapsi, nagu on kirjutatud Moosese Seaduse raamatus, tahumata kividest altari, mille külge ei olnud pandud raudriista; ja nad ohverdasid selle peal Issandale põletusohvreid ja tapsid tänuohvreid.

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

³²Ja ta kirjutas seal Iisraeli laste ees kivide peale ärakirja Moosese Seadusest, mille tema oli kirja pannud.

³³All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, the foreigner as well as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

³³Esiteks seisid kogu Iisrael, selle vanemad, ülevaatajad ja kohtumõistjad siin- ja sealpool laegast leviitpreestrite ees, kes kandsid Issanda seaduselaegast, niihästi võõrad kui pärismaised, pooled Gerisimi mäe poole ja pooled Eebali mäe poole, nõnda nagu Mooses, Issanda sulane, varem oli käskinud Iisraeli rahvast õnnistada.

³⁴Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

³⁴Ja seejärel ta luges ette kõik Seaduse sõnad, õnnistuse ja needuse, kõik nõnda, nagu Seaduse raamatus oli kirjutatud.

³⁵There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

³⁵Ühtegi sõna kõigest, mida Mooses oli käskinud, ei jätnud Joosua lugemata kogu Iisraeli koguduse ning naiste, väetite laste ja võõraste ees, kes nendega kaasas käisid.