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NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Dixit autem Dominus ad Iosue: “ Ne timeas neque formides; tol le tecum omnem multitudinem pugnatorum et consurgens ascende in oppidum Hai: ecce tradidi in manu tua regem eius et populum urbemque et terram eius.	1 Then the Lord said to Joshua: “You should not fear, and you should not dread. Take with you the entire multitude of fighters, and rising up, ascend to the town of Ai. Behold, I have delivered into your hand its king and people, and the city and the land.
2 Faciesque urbi Hai et regi eius, sicut fecisti Iericho et regi illius; praedam vero et omnia animantia diripietis vobis. Pone insidias urbi post eam ”.	2 And you shall do to the city of Ai, and to its king, just as you did to Jericho, and to its king. Yet truly, the spoils, and all the living things, you shall plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush against the city behind it.”
3 Surrexitque Iosue et omnis exercitus bellatorum cum eo, ut ascenderent in Hai; et electa triginta milia virorum fortium misit nocte	3 And Joshua rose up, and the entire army of warriors with him, so that they might ascend against Ai. And he sent thirty thousand elect strong men in the night.
4 praecepitque eis dicens: “Collocamini in insidiis post civitatem nec longius recedatis ab illa; et eritis omnes parati.	4 And he instructed them, saying: “Set an ambush behind the city. You shall withdraw not far away, and let everyone be prepared.
5 Ego autem et reliqua multitudo, quae mecum est, accedemus ex adverso contra urbem; cumque exierint contra nos sicut ante, fugiemus et terga vertemus,	5 But I and the remainder of the multitude that is with me will approach from the opposite side of the city. And when they come out against us, we will flee and turn our backs, just as we did before,
6 donec persequentes ab urbe longius protrahantur: putabunt enim nos fugere sicut prius.	6 until, pursuing us, they are drawn away from the city. For they will think that we are fleeing as before.
7 Nobis ergo fugientibus et illis sequentibus, consurgetis de insidiis et capietis civitatem; tradetque eam Dominus Deus vester in manus vestras.	7 Then, while we are fleeing and they are pursuing, you shall rise up from the ambush, and you shall lay waste to the city. And the Lord your God will deliver it into your hands.
8 Cumque ceperitis, succendite eam; secundum verbum Domini facietis. Ecce mandavi vobis”.	8 And when you have seized it, set it on fire. And you shall do all that I have ordered.”
9 Dimisitque eos, et perrexerunt ad insidiarum locum sederuntque inter Bethel et Hai ad occidentalem plagam urbis Hai. Iosue autem nocte illa in medio mansit populi.	9 And he sent them away, and they traveled to the place of the ambush, and they settled between Bethel and Ai, toward the western region of the city of Ai. But Joshua remained for that night in the midst of the people.
10 Surgensque diluculo recensuit populum et ascendit cum senioribus in fronte exercitus.	10 And rising at first light, he reviewed his troops, and he went up, with the elders at the front of the army, surrounded by an auxiliary of fighters.
11 Cumque omnes pugnatores cum eo ascendissent et appropinquassent civitati, steterunt ad septentrionalem urbis plagam, inter quam et eos vallis media erat.	11 And when they had arrived, and had ascended from the opposite side of the city, they stood toward the northern region of the city. And there was a valley in the middle, between them and the city.
12 Et elegit fere quinque milia viros et posuit in insidiis inter Bethel et Hai ex occidentali parte eiusdem civitatis.	12 Now he had chosen five thousand men, and he had positioned them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, at the western part of the same city.
13 Et posuit populus tota castra, quae erant in aquilone urbis, et agmen extremum ad occidentalem plagam urbis. Abiit ergo Iosue nocte illa et stetit in vallis medio.	13 Yet truly, all the remainder of the army was arranged in a line to the north, so that the very end of that multitude reached to the western region of the city. Then Joshua went out that night, and he stood in the middle of the valley.
14 Quod cum vidisset rex Hai, festinavit mane et egressus est cum omni exercitu civitatis direxitque aciem contra Arabam ignorans quod post tergum laterent insidiae.	14 And when the king of Ai had seen this, he hurried in the morning, and he went out with the entire army of the city. And he arranged them in a line opposite the desert, not knowing that an ambush lay hidden behind his back.
15 Iosue vero et omnis Israel cesserunt loco simulantes metum et fugientes per solitudinis viam.	15 Yet truly, Joshua, and all of Israel, withdrew from the place, pretending to be afraid, and fleeing along the way of the wilderness.
16 Et convocatus est totus populus, qui erat in civitate, ad persequendum eos, et persecuti sunt eos. Cumque recessissent a civitate,	16 And they pursued them, shouting together and encouraging one another. And when they had withdrawn from the city,
17 et ne unus quidem in urbe Hai remansisset, qui non persequeretur Israel, et apertam urbem reliquissent,	17 and indeed not one remained in the city of Ai and of Bethel who did not pursue after Israel, (leaving the towns open after they had rushed out,)
18 dixit Dominus ad Iosue: “Leva acinacem, quod in manu tua est, contra urbem Hai, quoniam tibi tradam eam ”.	18 the Lord said to Joshua: “Lift up the shield that is in your hand, toward the city of Ai. For I will deliver it to you.”
19 Cumque elevasset acinacem ex adverso civitatis, insidiae, quae latebant, surrexerunt confestim et currentes ad civitatem ceperunt et cito succenderunt eam.	19 And when he had lifted up the shield toward the city, the ambush, which lay hidden, rose up quickly. And advancing to the city, they seized it, and set it on fire.
20 Viri autem civitatis, qui persequebantur Iosue, respicientes et videntes fumum urbis ad caelum usque conscendere, non potuerunt ultra huc illucque diffugere, praesertim cum hi, qui simulaverant fugam et tendebant ad solitudinem, contra persequentes conversi essent.	20 Now the men of the city who were pursuing Joshua, looking back and seeing the smoke of the city rising up even to heaven, were no longer able to flee in one direction or another, especially since those who had pretended to flee, and who were heading toward the wilderness, had turned back very strongly against those who were pursuing them.
21 Vidensque Iosue et omnis Israel quod capta esset civitas, et fumus urbis ascenderet, reversi percusserunt viros Hai.	21 And Joshua, and all of Israel, seeing that the city had been captured, and that the smoke of the city was ascending, returned and struck down the men of Ai.
22 Siquidem et illi, qui ceperant et succenderant civitatem, egressi sunt ex urbe in occursum eorum et hostes medios habuerunt. Cum ergo ex utraque parte adversarii caederentur, ita ut nullus de tanta multitudine salvaretur,	22 Then too, those who had seized and set the city on fire, departing from the city toward their own men, began to strike the enemies in the middle. Therefore, since the adversaries were cut off from both sides, none of so great a multitude was saved.
23 regem quoque urbis Hai apprehenderunt viventem et obtulerunt Iosue.	23 Also, they apprehended the king of the city of Ai, alive, and they brought him before Joshua.
24 Igitur, omnibus habitatoribus Hai interfectis, qui Israelem ad deserta tendentem fuerant persecuti, et in eodem loco gladio corruentibus, reversi filii Israel percusserunt civitatem ore gladii.	24 And so, after all were slain who had pursued Israel fleeing toward the wilderness, and after they fell by the sword in the same place, the sons of Israel returned and struck the city.
25 Erant autem, qui in eo die conciderant, a viro usque ad mulierem duodecim milia hominum omnes urbis Hai.	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 Iosue vero non contraxit manum, quam in sublime porrexerat tenens acinacem, donec interficerentur omnes habitatores Hai.	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 Iumenta tantum et praedam civitatis diviserunt sibi filii Israel, sicut praeceperat Dominus Iosue.	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 Qui succendit urbem et fecit eam tumulum sempiternum, desolationem usque in praesentem diem.	28 And he set fire to the city, and he caused it to be a perpetual tomb.
29 Regem quoque eius suspendit in ligno usque ad vesperum; et ad solis occasum praecepit Iosue, et deposuerunt cadaver eius de ligno proieceruntque in ipso introitu portae civitatis, congesto super eum magno acervo lapidum, qui permanet usque in praesentem diem.	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 Tunc aedificavit Iosue altare Domino, Deo Israel, in monte Hebal,	30 Then Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
31 sicut praeceperat Moyses famulus Domini filiis Israel, et scriptum est in volumine legis Moysi, altare de lapidibus impolitis, quos ferrum non tetigit. Et obtulerunt super eo holocausta Domino immolaveruntque pacificas victimas.	31 just as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had instructed to the sons of Israel, and this was written in the book of the law of Moses: truly, an altar of uncut stones, which iron has not touched. And he offered holocausts upon it to the Lord, and he immolated victims as peace-offerings.
32 Et scripsit ibi super lapides exemplar legis Moysi, quod ille scripserat coram filiis Israel.	32 And he wrote on the stones, the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses, which he had set in order before the sons of Israel.
33 Omnis autem populus et maiores natu praefectique ac iudices stabant ex utraque parte arcae in conspectu sacerdotum levitici generis, qui portabant arcam foederis Domini, ut advena ita et indigena. Media eorum pars iuxta montem Garizim et media iuxta montem Hebal, sicut praeceperat Moyses famulus Domini ad benedicendum populo Israel primum;	33 Then all the people, and those greater by birth, and the commanders and judges were standing on both sides of the ark, in the sight of the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, with both the new arrival and the native born, one half part of them beside Mount Gerizim, and one half beside Mount Ebal, just as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had instructed. And first, certainly, he blessed the people of Israel.
34 post haec legit omnia verba legis, benedictionem et maledictionem, secundum cuncta, quae scripta erant in legis volumine.	34 After this, he read all the words of the blessing and the cursing, and all the things that were written in the book of the law.
35 Nihil ex his, quae Moyses iusserat, omisit legere, sed universa replicavit coram omni congregatione Israel, mulieribus ac parvulis et advenis, qui inter eos morabantur.	35 He left nothing untouched out of those things that Moses had ordered, and he repeated everything before the entire multitude of Israel, with the women and the little ones, and the new arrivals who were staying among them.