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.

¹Huan, Toupan Josua kiangah, Lau kenla, lunglel sam ken: galkap thei tengteng na kiangah tonpih inla, thou inla, Ai khua ah hoh tou in: ngaiin, Ai kho kumpipa leh, a mite leh, a khua leh, a gam na khut ah ka honpeta hi:

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.”

²Jeriko leh a kumpipa uh tunga na hih bangin Ai khua leh a kumpipa tungah leng na hih sin hi, gallak leh gante kia noua tuam dingin nei un: khopi guk tanna ding a nunglam ah koih un, a chi a.

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.

³Huchiin josua leh galkap thei tengteng Ai lama hoh tou dingin a kisata ua: huan, Josuain mi hat hangsan sing tum a telkhiaa, janin a hoh sak.

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.

⁴A kiang uah, Ngai un, khopi nunglamah khopi sual dingin guk tan un: khopi akipana gamla lua ah bel pai kei unla, mansain om gige un:

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.

⁵Huan, kei leh ka kianga omte tengtengin khopi ka honjuan ding ua; huan, hichi ahi dinga, tuma mahbangin hongsual dinga a hongpawt tak un, a ma uah I taikek ding ua;

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,

⁶Huchiin hondelh dingin a pawt ding ua, khua akipan gamla sim I khem khiak phain; amau, Tuma mahbangin I ma uah taikek uh e, a chi ding ua; huchiin a ma uah I taikek ding uh;

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

⁷Huan, tan gukna akipan na hongpawt ding ua, khawpi na la ding uhi: TOUPA na Pathian un na khut uah a pe sin hi.

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.”

⁸Huan, hichi ahi dinga, khopi na lak tak un, khopi na hal ding uh: TOUPA thu bang jelinna hih ding uh ahi: ngai un, thu ka honpe khin hi, chiin thu a piaa.

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.

⁹Huan, Josuain a kuan sakta: huchiin guk tanna munah a hoh ua, Ai kho tumlamah Bethel leh Ai kho kikalah a om uh; Josua bel huai janin mipite lakah a giak hi.

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

¹⁰Huan, Josua jingkhangin a thoua, mipite a kaikhawma, huan, amah leh Israelte upate mipite maah Ai kho lamah a hoh tou ua.

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.

¹¹Huan, mipite tengteng, a kianga galkap thei omte a hoh tou ua, a vajuan ua, khopi chinah a hoh tou ua, Ai kho mallam pangah a giak tou uh: Ai khua toh a kikal uah guam a om hi.

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

¹²Huan, mi, sang nga tak a tonpiha, khopi tumlam pang Bethel leh Ai kho kikalah a guktan saka.

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.

¹³Huchiin mipi, mihonpi, khopi mallam panga sepaihte panmun leh khopi tumlam panga a guk tante panmun hoihtakin a sepa; huan, Josua bel huai janin guam lai takah a pai.

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.

¹⁴Huan, hichi ahi a, Ai kho kumpipan huai a muh takin, kintakin jingkhangin a thou a, huai khuaa mite amah leh a lawite tengteng toh, a mun seh Arab jawnah Israelte sual dingin a pawttaa, himahleh kho nunglamah amah sual dingin a guktan uh chih a theikei hi.

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

¹⁵Huan, Josua leh Israelte tengteng zohsa bang takin a om ua, gamdai lam lampi ah a tai duamduam uh.

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.

¹⁶Huan, khopia om tengteng amau delh dingin a sam khawm ua: huchiin Josua a delh ua, khopi akipan gamla sim khem khiakin a omta uhi.

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.

¹⁷Huan, Ai khua ah leh Bethel khuaah Israelte delh lou khat leng a omta kei ua: khopi bangmah kal louin a pawtsanta ua, Israelte a delh uh.

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.

¹⁸Huan, TOUPAN Josua kiangah, Huai na teipi tawi Ai kho lam ngain lik in; na khuta honpe ding ka hi, a chi a. Huchiin, Josuain a teipi khopi lam ngain a likta.

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.

¹⁹Huan, guktan mite a omna ua kipanin a hongpai khe pah ua, huan, a khut a jak takin a tai ua, khopi ah a lut ua, a lata ua; huan, khua a hal pah uh.

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.

²⁰Huan, Aiten a nunglam uh a et uleh, ngaiin, khopi van lama khutou ngoingoiin a mu ua, a koilam lamah leng tai theihna himhim a neikei ua: huchiin gamdaia taiten amau delhte a naleh delh ua.

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.

²¹Huan, Josua leh Israelte tengtengin guktanten khopi a lak ua, khopi khu paitou ngoingoi a muh tak un a kik nawn ua, Aite a that uh.

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.

²²Huan, mi dangte amau sual dingin khopi sung akipan a hongpawt khia ua huchiin Israelten a kalh teh ta ua, khen a langkhat ah a om ua, a khen a langkhat ah: huchiin a that ua, khat lel leng hawi leh khah mahmah a neikei uh.

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

²³Huan, Ai kho kumpipa a hingmat ua, Josua kiangah a hongpi ua.

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.

²⁴Huan, hichi ahi a, Israelten Ai kho mi gamlaka om tengteng, gamdai gama a vadelhna mun ua a thah khit ua, a vek ua temsau a a thah gam khit nung un, Israelte tengteng Ai kho lamah a kik nawn ua, temsauin a vasual uh.

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

²⁵Huan, huai nia si tengteng numei pasal sing khat leh sang nih ahi ua, Ai khuaa mite tengteng.

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.

²⁶Josuain lah a teipi likna khut Aite tengteng a hihman keuhkeuh masiah a kaiton ngal keia.

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.

²⁷TOUPAN Josua thu a piaka, hih ding a chih bangbanga huai khopia gante leh gallakte kia Israelte adingin amau tuam dingin a tangta uhi.

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

²⁸Huchiin Josuain Ai khua a hal a, khantawn adingin leivumin a bawla, tutanin hihgam ahi hi.

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.

²⁹Huan, Ai kho kumpipa nitak tanin singdawn ah a khaia: huan, ni tum kuanin Josuain thu a piaa, huchiin a luang sing dawn akipan a lakhia ua, khopi kulh kongpi lutna ah a pai ua, a tungah suang a vum venvon ua, tu tanin om lai hi.

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

³⁰Huan, Josuain Ebal tangah TOUPA, Israelte Pathian adingin maitam a doha,

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.

³¹Mosi dan laibu-a gelhsa bangin, TOUPA sikha Mosiin Israel suante tuh a napiaksa bangin, suang seklouh, kuamahin sika a sek ngei nai het louh uh maitam a bawla: huaiah TOUPA adingin halmang thillatte a lana, lemna kithoihin a kithoih uh.

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

³²Huan, huaiah Israel suante ma mahmahah Mosiin a dan gelh suangte khawngah a tei sawma.

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.

³³Huan, Israelte tengteng, a upate uh leh heutute, a vaihawmte u toh, Levi chi siampute, TOUPA thukhun bawm jawngte maah, bawm langkhat tuaktuak ah nam dang leng, huai gama piangte leng a ding khawm vek ua; a kimkhat Gerizim tang pangah a om ua, a kimkhat Ebal tang pangah a om ua; TOUPA sikha Mosiin Israelten phat ding uh ahi chia thu a napiak bangin.

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.

³⁴Huan, huai khitin danthu tengteng, vualjawlna thu leh hamsethuak thu a sima, dan laibua tuang tengteng bang.Mosi thupiak tengteng Israelte omkhawm tengteng leh, numeite leh naupang neuchikchikte leh, a lak ua nam dangte maah josuain sim louh himhim a neikei.

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.

³⁵Mosi thupiak tengteng Israelte omkhawm tengteng leh, numeite leh naupang neuchikchikte leh, a lak ua nam dangte maah josuain sim louh himhim a neikei.