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Joshua 8:31

Verse 31 of 35. The 8th of 24 chapters in Joshua, in History.

27Israel took for themselves only the livestock and the goods of that city, according to the LORD’s word which he commanded Joshua.

28So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

29He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. 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.

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

31as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law 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.

32He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

33All Israel, with their elders, officers, and judges, stood on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests, 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.

34Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

35There 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.

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