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.

¹A Hospodin riekol Jozuovi: Neboj sa ani sa nestrachuj! Pojmi so sebou všetok ľud, súci do boja, a vstaň a iď hore do Haja. Hľaďže, dal som do tvojej ruky kráľa mesta Haj i jeho ľud, jeho mesto i jeho zem.

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.”

²A učiníš mestu Haj i jeho kráľovi, jako si učinil Jerichu i jeho kráľovi, len že jeho korisť i jeho dobytok ulúpite pre seba. Postav si úklad mestu od jeho tyla.

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.

³Vtedy vstal Jozua, všetok ľud, súci do boja, aby išli hore do Haja. A Jozua vybral tridsať tisíc mužov, silných hrdinov, a poslal ich vopred vnoci.

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 prikázal im a riekol: Hľaďte, vy budete úkladiť mestu od tyla mesta. Nevzdiaľte sa veľmi ďaleko od mesta a buďte všetci hotoví.

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.

⁵A ja a všetok ľud, ktorý pojde so mnou, budeme sa blížiť mestu. A stane sa, keď vyjdú oproti nám ako tam prv, že budeme utekať pred nimi.

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,

⁶A vyjdú za nami a pojdú, až ich odtrhneme od mesta, lebo povedia: Utekajú pred nami jako tam prv! A budeme utekať pred nimi.

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

⁷A vy vstanete z úkladiska a zaujmete mesto. A Hospodin, váš Bôh, ho dá do vašej ruky.

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.”

⁸A stane sa, keď dosiahnete mesto, že ho zapálite ohňom; učiníte podľa slova Hospodinovho. Hľaďte, prikázal som vám!

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.

⁹A tak ich poslal Jozua, a išli do úkladiska a zostali medzi Bét-elom a medzi Hajom, od západnej strany mesta Haj. A Jozua nocoval tej noci medzi ľudom.

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

¹⁰Potom vstanúc Jozua skoro ráno spočítal ľud a išiel hore, on i starší Izraelovi, pred ľudom k Haju.

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.

¹¹A všetok bojovný ľud, ktorý bol s ním, išiel hore, priblížili sa a prišli naproti mestu a položili sa táborom od severnej strany Haja, a dolina bola medzi ním a medzi Hajom.

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

¹²A vzal okolo päť tisíc mužov a postavil ich úkladom medzi Bét-elom a medzi Hajom od západnej strany mesta.

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.

¹³A rozostavil ľud, celý tábor, ktorý bol od severnej strany mesta, i jeho zadné vojsko od západnej strany mesta. A tak odišiel Jozua tej noci naprostred doliny.

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.

¹⁴A stalo sa, keď to videl kráľ mesta Haj, poponáhľali sa a vstanúc skoro ráno vyšli mužovia mesta vústrety Izraelovi do boja, on i všetok jeho ľud, na určený čas pred rovinu. Ale on nevedel, že mu úkladia od tyla mesta.

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

¹⁵A Jozua a všetok Izrael sa staväli, jako keby boli porazení pred nimi a utekali cestou púšte.

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.

¹⁶Vtedy bol krikom povolaný všetok ľud, ktorý bol v meste, aby ich honili, a honili Jozuu a boli odtrhnutí od mesta.

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.

¹⁷A nezostalo ani muža v meste Haj ani v Bét-ele, ktorý by nebol vyšiel za Izraelom, a zanechali mesto otvorené a honili Izraela.

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.

¹⁸A Hospodin riekol Jozuovi: Vystri svojou kopiou, ktorá je v tvojej ruke, proti mestu Haj, lebo ho dám do tvojej ruky! A Jozua vystrel kopiou, ktorá bola v jeho ruke, proti mestu.

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.

¹⁹Vtedy povstal rýchle úklad zo svojho mesta, a bežali, hneď ako vystrel svoju ruku, a vojdúc do mesta zaujali ho, a chytro zapálili mesto ohňom.

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.

²⁰A mužovia Haja obzrúc sa nazpät videli, že hľa, vystupuje dym mesta do neba, a nebolo v nich sily utiecť ani sem ani ta, a ľud, ktorý utekal na púšť, obrátil sa zpät proti prenasledovateľovi.

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.

²¹Keď potom videl Jozua i celý Izrael, že úklad zaujal mesto, a že vystupuje dym mesta, vrátili sa a bili mužov Haja.

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.

²²A tamtí vyšli z mesta proti nim, a tak boli Izraelovi v prostredku, jedni im boli ztade a druhí ztade, a bili ich až im nikto nezostal živý ani z nich nikto neutiekol.

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

²³A kráľa Haja chytili živého a doviedli ho k Jozuovi.

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.

²⁴A stalo sa, keď pobil Izrael všetkých obyvateľov mesta Haj na poli, na púšti, kam ich honili, a keď popadali všetci ostrím meča, až boli cele vyhladení, vtedy sa vrátil celý Izrael do mesta Haj, a zbili ho ostrím meča.

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

²⁵A bolo všetkých, ktorí padli toho dňa, od muža až do ženy, dvanásť tisíc, všetko ľudia mesta Haj.

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.

²⁶A Jozua nespustil svojej ruky, ktorú vystrel s kopiou, dokiaľ celkom nevyhladil všetkých obyvateľov Haja zarieknuc ich úplnej záhube.

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.

²⁷Len dobytok a korisť toho mesta ulúpili pre seba synovia Izraelovi, podľa slova Hospodinovho, ktoré prikázal Jozuovi.

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

²⁸A Jozua spálil Haj a učinil ho večnou hromadou a púšťou a je tak až do tohoto dňa.

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.

²⁹A kráľa Haja obesil na strom a nechal ho visieť až do večera. Ale keď zašlo slnko, rozkázal Jozua, a sňali jeho mŕtvolu so stromu a hodili ju ku vrátam brány mesta a nanosili na neho veľkú hromadu kamenia, ktorá je tam až do tohoto dňa.

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

³⁰Vtedy postavil Jozua Hospodinovi, Bohu Izraelovmu, oltár na vrchu Ébale,

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.

³¹tak ako prikázal Mojžiš, služobník Hospodinov, synom Izraelovým, ako je to napísané v knihe zákona Mojžišovho, oltár z celých kameňov netesaných, nad ktorými nepovzniesli železa. A obetovali na ňom zápalné obeti Hospodinovi a obetovali aj bitné obeti pokojné.

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

³²A napísal tam na tie kamene opis zákona Mojžišovho, ktorý napísal pred synmi Izraelovými.

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.

³³A celý Izrael i jeho starší i jeho správcovia i jeho sudcovia stáli s jednej i s druhej strany truhly pred kňazmi Levitami, ktorí nosili truhlu smluvy Hospodinovej, tak cudzí jako zrodení doma, polovica ich stála oproti vrchu Gerízimu a ich druhá polovica oproti vrchu Ébalu, tak ako prikázal Mojžiš, služobník Hospodinov, požehnávať ľud Izraelov najprv.

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.

³⁴Potom čítal všetky slová zákona, požehnanie i zlorečenie, všetko tak, ako je napísané v knihe zákona.

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.

³⁵Nebolo ničoho zo všetkého toho, čo prikázal Mojžiš, čoho by nebol čítal Jozua pred celou obcou Izraelovou, i pred ženami i pred deťmi i pred pohostínom, ktorý chodil v ich strede.