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Joshua 8:25-30 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

25. Now there were twelve thousand persons who had fallen on the same day, from man even to woman, the entire city of Ai.

26. Truly Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had stretched out on high, keeping hold of the shield until all the inhabitants of Ai were put to death.

27. Then the sons of Israel divided among themselves the cattle and the plunder of the city, just as the Lord had instructed Joshua.

28. And he set fire to the city, and he caused it to be a perpetual tomb.

29. Also, he suspended the king on a gallows, until evening and the setting of the sun. And Joshua instructed, and they took down his dead body from the hanging tree. And they cast it at the very entrance of the city, gathering a great pile of stones upon it, which remains even to the present day.

30. Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

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