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25 So 12,000 men and women died[a] that day, including all the men of Ai. 26 Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.[b] 27 But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in keeping with the Lord’s orders[c] to Joshua.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:25 tn Heb “fell.”
  2. Joshua 8:26 tn Heb “Joshua did not draw back his hand which held out the curved sword until he had annihilated all the residents of Ai.”
  3. Joshua 8:27 tn Heb “message, word.”