1 E ntão disse o Senhor a Josué: Não temas, e não te espantes; toma contigo toda a gente de guerra, levanta-te, e sobe a Ai. Olha que te entreguei na tua mão o rei de Ai, o seu povo, a sua cidade e a sua terra.

Now the Lord said to Joshua: “Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.

2 F arás pois a Ai e a seu rei, como fizeste a Jericó e a seu rei; salvo que para vós tomareis os seus despojos, e o seu gado. Põe emboscadas ã cidade, por detrás dela.

And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it.”

3 E ntão Josué levantou-se, com toda a gente de guerra, para subir contra Ai; e escolheu Josué trinta mil homens valorosos, e enviou-os de noite.

So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night.

4 E deu-lhes ordem, dizendo: Ponde-vos de emboscada contra a cidade, por detrás dela; não vos distancieis muito da cidade, mas estai todos vós apercebidos.

And he commanded them, saying: “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

5 M as eu e todo o povo que está comigo nos aproximaremos da cidade; e quando eles nos saírem ao encontro, como dantes, fugiremos diante deles.

Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city; and it will come about, when they come out against us as at the first, that we shall flee before them.

6 E eles sairão atrás de nós, até que os tenhamos afastado da cidade, pois dirão: Fogem diante de nós como dantes. Assim fugiremos diante deles;

For they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, ‘ They are fleeing before us as at the first.’ Therefore we will flee before them.

7 e vós saireis da emboscada, e tomareis a cidade, porque o Senhor vosso Deus vo-la entregará nas maos.

Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand.

8 L ogo que tiverdes tomado a cidade, pôr-lhe-eis fogo, fazendo conforme a palavra do Senhor; olhai que vo-lo tenho mandado.

And it will be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire. According to the commandment of the Lord you shall do. See, I have commanded you.”

9 A ssim Josué os enviou, e eles se foram ã emboscada, colocando-se entre Betel e Ai, ao ocidente de Ai; porém Josué passou aquela noite no meio do povo.

Joshua therefore sent them out; and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

10 L evantando-se Josué de madrugada, passou o povo em revista; então subiu, com os anciãos de Israel, adiante do povo contra Ai.

Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

11 T odos os homens armados que estavam com ele subiram e, aproximando-se pela frente da cidade, acamparam-se ao norte de Ai, havendo um vale entre eles e Ai.

And all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near; and they came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now a valley lay between them and Ai.

12 T omou também cerca de cinco mil homens, e pô-los de emboscada entre Betel e Ai, ao ocidente da cidade.

So he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

13 A ssim dispuseram o povo, todo o arraial ao norte da cidade, e a sua emboscada ao ocidente da cidade. Marchou Josué aquela noite até o meio do vale.

And when they had set the people, all the army that was on the north of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

14 Q uando o rei de Ai viu isto, ele e todo o seu povo se apressaram, levantando-se de madrugada, e os homens da cidade saíram ao encontro de Israel ao combate, ao lugar determinado, defronte da planície; mas ele não sabia que se achava uma emboscada contra ele atrás da cidade.

Now it happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

15 J osué, pois, e todo o Israel fingiram-se feridos diante deles, e furiram pelo caminho do deserto:

And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

16 P ortanto, todo o povo que estava na cidade foi convocado para os perseguir; e seguindo eles após Josué, afastaram-se da cidade.

So all the people who were in Ai were called together to pursue them. And they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city.

17 N em um só homem ficou em Ai, nem em Betel, que não saísse após Israel; assim deixaram a cidade aberta, e seguiram a Israel:

There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel.

18 E ntão o Senhor disse a Josué: Estende para Ai a lança que tens na mão; porque eu ta entregarei. E Josué estendeu para a cidade a lança que estava na sua mão.

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the spear that was in his hand toward the city.

19 E , tendo ele estendido a mão, os que estavam de emboscada se levantaram apressadamente do seu lugar e, correndo, entraram na cidade, e a tomaram; e, apressando-se, puseram fogo ã cidade.

So those in ambush arose quickly out of their place; they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered the city and took it, and hurried to set the city on fire.

20 N isso, olhando os homens de Ai para trás, viram a fumaça da cidade, que subia ao céu, e não puderam fugir nem para uma parte nem para outra, porque o povo que fugia para o deserto se tornou contra eles.

And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven. So they had no power to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

21 E vendo Josué e todo o Israel que a emboscada tomara a cidade, e que a fumaça da cidade subia, voltaram e feriram os homens de Ai.

Now when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.

22 T ambém aqueles que estavam na cidade lhes saíram ao encontro, e assim os de Ai ficaram no meio dos israelitas, estando estes de uma e de outra parte; e feriram-nos, de sorte que não deixaram ficar nem escapar nenhum deles.

Then the others came out of the city against them; so they were caught in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them down, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

23 M as ao rei de Ai tomaram vivo, e o trouxeram a Josué.

But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

24 Q uando os israelitas acabaram de matar todos os moradores de Ai no campo, no deserto para onde os tinham seguido, e havendo todos caído ao fio da espada até serem consumidos, então todo o Israel voltou para Ai e a feriu a fio de espada.

And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.

25 O ra, todos os que caíram naquele dia, assim homens como mulheres, foram doze mil, isto é, todos os de Ai.

So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand—all the people of Ai.

26 P ois Josué não retirou a mão, que estendera com a lança, até destruir totalmente a todos os moradores de Ai.

For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

27 T ão-somente os israelitas tomaram para si o gado e os despojos da cidade, conforme a palavra que o Senhor ordenara a Josue:

Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He had commanded Joshua.

28 Q ueimou pois Josué a Ai, e a tornou num perpétuo montão de ruínas, como o é até o dia de hoje.

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

29 A o rei de Ai enforcou num madeiro, deixando-o ali até a tarde. Ao pôr do sol, por ordem de Josué, tiraram do madeiro o cadáver, lançaram-no ã porta da cidade e levantaram sobre ele um grande montão de pedras, que permanece até o dia de hoje.

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Joshua Renews the Covenant

30 E ntão Josué edificou um altar ao Senhor Deus de Israel, no monte Ebal,

Now Joshua built an altar to the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal,

31 c omo Moisés, servo do Senhor, ordenara aos filhos de Israel, conforme o que está escrito no livro da lei de Moisés, a saber: um altar de pedras brutas, sobre as quais não se levantara ferramenta; e ofereceram sobre ele holocaustos ao Senhor, e sacrificaram ofertas parcíficas.

as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of whole stones over which no man has wielded an iron tool. ” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.

32 T ambém ali, na presença dos filhos de Israel, escreveu em pedras uma cópia da lei de Moisés, a qual este escrevera.

And there, in the presence of the children of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.

33 E todo o Israel, tanto o estrangeiro como o natural, com os seus anciãos, oficiais e juízes, estava de um e de outro lado da arca, perante os levitas sacerdotes que levavam a arca do pacto do Senhor; metade deles em frente do monte Gerizim, e a outra metade em frente do monte Ebal, como Moisés, servo do Senhor, dantes ordenara, para que abençoassem o povo de Israel.

Then all Israel, with their elders and officers and judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the stranger as well as he who was born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

34 D epois leu em alta voz todas as palavras da lei, a bênção e a maldição, conforme tudo o que está escrito no livro da lei.

And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.

35 P alavra nenhuma houve, de tudo o que Moisés ordenara, que Josué não lesse perante toda a congregação de Israel, e as mulheres, e os pequeninos, e os estrangeiros que andavam no meio deles.

There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the strangers who were living among them.