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.

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.

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.”

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 to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out 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

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.

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

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.

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

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,

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

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

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

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.”

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

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.

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.

¹⁰Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered 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.

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.

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.

¹²He took about five thousand men, and set them 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

¹⁵Joshua 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

²⁵All 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 didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, 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 livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.

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

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

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

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.

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 to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

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

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.

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.

³²He wrote there on 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 didn’t read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were 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.