27. However, the Israelites took for themselves as plunder the livestock and the spoil of that city, according to the command of the Lord issued to Joshua.
28. Then Joshua destroyed Ai by fire, reducing it to an everlasting mound of ruins, as it remains today.
29. He had the king of Ai hanged on a tree until evening; then at sunset Joshua ordered the body removed from the tree and cast at the entrance of the city gate, where a great heap of stones was piled up over it, which remains to the present day.
30. Later, on Mount Ebal, Joshua built to the Lord, the God of Israel, an altar
31. of unhewn stones on which no iron tool had been used, just as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the Israelites, as recorded in the book of the law. On this altar they sacrificed burnt offerings to the Lord and made communion sacrifices.
32. There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed upon the stones a copy of the law written by Moses.