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Joshua 8:29-31
Lexham English Bible
Joshua 8:29-31
Lexham English Bible
29 The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the time of evening, and as the sun went down Joshua commanded them, and they brought down his dead body from the tree. Then they threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and they raised over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.
Israel Renews the Covenant
30 Then Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal for Yahweh the God of Israel, 31 as Moses Yahweh’s servant commanded the Israelites,[a] as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses: “an altar of unhewn[b] stones on which no one has wielded[c] an iron implement.”[d] And they offered burnt offerings on it and sacrificed fellowship offerings.
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- Joshua 8:31 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
- Joshua 8:31 Or “whole”
- Joshua 8:31 Literally “waved over them”
- Joshua 8:31 See Exod 20:25
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