25. And all that fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand, including all the men of Ai.
26. For Joshua drew not back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27. Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He commanded Joshua.
28. So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap of ruins for ever, even a desolation to this day.
29. And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset, Joshua commanded and they took the body down from the tree and cast it at the entrance of the city gate and raised a great heap of stones over it that is there 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 Israelites, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man has lifted up an iron tool; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings.
32. And there, in the presence of the Israelites, [Joshua] wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses.