25. All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
26. For Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27. Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the Lord’s word which he commanded Joshua.
28. So Joshua burned Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
29. He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at 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.
30. Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
31. as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the scroll of the Torah of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings.
32. He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33. All Israel, their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of the Lord’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 the Lord had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.
34. Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the scroll of the Torah.
35. There 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.