1 Y ahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

ثُمَّ قالَ اللهُ لِيَشُوعَ: «لا تَخَفْ وَلا تَخُرْ عَزِيمَتُكَ. خُذْ مَعَكَ كُلَّ الجَيشِ وَاصعَدِ الآنَ إلَى عايَ. سَأُعطِيكَ مَلِكَ عايَ وَشَعبَهُ وَمَدِينَتَهُ وَأرْضَهُ.

2 Y ou shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

وَسَتَعمَلُ بِعايَ وَبِمَلِكِها كَما عَمِلْتَ بِأرِيحا وَبِمَلِكِها. لَكِنْ فِي هَذِهِ المَرَّةِ يُمكِنُكَ الاحتِفاظُ بِثَروَتِها وَحَيواناتِها غَنِيمَةً لَكَ. أقِمْ كَمِيناً خَلْفَ المَدِينَةِ.»

3 S o Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

فانطَلَقَ يَشُوعُ إلَى عايَ مَعَ كُلِّ الجَيشِ. وَاختارَ يَشُوعُ ثَلاثِينَ ألفاً مِنْ أفضَلِ جُنُودِهِ وَأرسَلَهُمْ فِي الَّليلِ.

4 H e commanded them, saying, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

وَأعطاهُمْ هَذِهِ الأوامِرَ: «انتَبِهُوا! أقِيمُوا كَمِيناً خَلْفَ المَدِينَةِ. وَلا تَبتَعِدُوا عَن المَدِينَةِ، وَلَكِنْ كُونُوا مُستَعِدِّينَ وَيَقِظِينَ.

5 I and all the people who are with me will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

سَنَتَقَدَّمُ أنا وَالجَيشُ الَّذِي مَعِي إلَى المَدِينَةِ. حِينَ يَخرُجُونَ لِمُواجَهَتِنا كَما حَدَثَ قَبلاً، فَإنَّنا سَنَهرُبُ أمامَهُمْ.

6 T hey will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, ‘They flee before us, like the first time.’ So we will flee before them,

حِينَئِذٍ، سَيَخرُجُونَ وَراءَنا إلَى أنْ نُبعِدَهُمْ عَنِ المَدِينَةِ. لِأنَّهُمْ سَيَظُنُّونَ أنَّنا نَهْرُبُ مِنْهُمْ كَما حَدَثَ مِنْ قَبلُ. فَحِينَ نَهرُبُ أمامَهُمْ،

7 a nd you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.

تَخْرُجُونَ مِنْ مَكانِ الكَمِينِ وَتَأْخُذُونَ المَدِينَةَ، لأنَّ إلَهَكُمْ سَيُعطِيها لَكُمْ.

8 I t shall be, when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to Yahweh’s word. Behold, I have commanded you.”

«وَحِينَ تَأخُذُونَ المَدِينَةَ، أحْرِقُوها بِالنّارِ. اعْمَلُوا بِحَسَبِ أمْرِ اللهِ. ها قَدْ سَمِعْتُمْ أوامِرِي.»

9 J oshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

فَأرسَلَهُمْ يَشُوعُ فَذَهَبُوا إلَى مَكانِ الكَمِينِ، وَبَقَوْا بَينَ بَيتِ إيلَ وَعايَ، إلَى الغَرْبِ مِنْ عايَ. أمّا يَشُوعُ فَقَضَى تِلْكَ الَّليلَةَ وَسَطَ الجَيشِ.

10 J oshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

وَاستِيقَظَ يَشُوعُ فِي الصَّباحِ باكِراً وَجَمَعَ كُلَّ الجَيشِ. ثُمَّ خَرَجَ مَعَ شُيُوخِ إسْرائِيلَ أمامَ جَيشِ عايَ.

11 A ll the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and came near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.

وَكُلُّ الجُنُودِ الَّذِينَ مَعْهُ صَعِدُوا وَاقتَرَبُوا مِنَ المَدِينَةِ، وَوَصَلُوا إلَى مُقابِلِها، وَخَيَّمُوا إلَى الشَّمالِ مِنْ عايَ. وَكانَ الوادِي بَينَهُمْ وَبَينَ عايَ.

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

وَأخَذَ يَشُوعُ خَمسَةَ آلافِ رَجُلٍ وَجَعَلَهُمْ يَكْمُنُونَ بَينَ بَيْتَ إيلَ وَعايَ إلَى الغَرْبِ مِنَ المَدِينَةِ.

13 S o they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the middle of the valley.

فَحَدَّدُوا مَواقِعَ الجَيشِ. عَرَفُوا أنَّ المُعَسكَرَ الرَّئِيسِيَّ إلَى الشَّمالِ مِنَ المَدِينَةِ، وَبَقِيَّةَ الجَيشِ إلَى الغَربِ مِنَ المَدِينَةِ. وَذَهَبَ يَشُوعُ فِي تِلكَ الَّليلَةِ إلَى وَسَطِ الوادِي.

14 W hen the king of Ai saw it, they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn’t know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

وَحِينَ رَأى مَلِكُ عايَ هَذا، أسرَعَ هوَ وَشَعبُهُ، سُكَّانُ المَدِينَةِ، وَخَرَجُوا فِي الصَّباحِ الباكِرِ لِقِتالِ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ مُقابِلَ وادِي الأُردُنِّ. لَكِنَّهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَعرِفُ أنَّ كَمِيناً قَدْ أُعِدَّ خَلْفَ المَدِينَةِ.

15 J oshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

وَتَظاهَرَ يَشُوعُ وَكُلُّ جَيشِ إسْرائِيلَ بِالانهِزامِ أمامَهُمْ، فَهَرَبُوا نَحْوَ البَرِّيَّةِ.

16 A ll the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

فَخَرَجَ كُلُّ رِجالِ عايَ لِيُطارِدُوهُمْ. فَطارَدُوا يَشُوعَ وَابتَعَدُوا عَنِ المَدِينَةِ.

17 T here was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

وَلَمْ يَبْقَ رَجُلٌ فِي عايَ أوْ بَيتِ إيلَ إلّا وَخَرَجَ وَراءَ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ. تَرَكُوا المَدِينَةَ بِلا حِمايةٍ وَطارَدُوا إسْرائِيلَ.

18 Y ahweh said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

فَقالَ اللهُ لِيَشُوعَ: «مُدَّ رُمحَكَ الَّذِي فِي يَدِكَ نَحوَ عايَ لِأنِّي سَأُخضِعُها لَكَ.» فَمَدَّ يَشُوعُ رُمحَهُ الَّذِي كانَ فَي يَدِهِ نَحْوَ المَدِينَةِ.

19 T he ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it. They hurried and set the city on fire.

حِينَئِذٍ قامَ الجُنُودُ المُختَبِئُونَ مِنْ مَكانِهِمْ وَاندَفَعُوا إلَى الأمامِ حِينَ مَدَّ يَشُوعُ يَدَهُ. وَدَخَلُوا المَدِينَةَ وَسَيطَرُوا عَلَيها، وَأشعَلُوا النّارَ فِيها بِسُرعَةٍ.

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

وَلَمّا نَظَرَ رِجالُ عايَ إلَى الوَراءِ، رَأَوْا الدُّخانَ يَصْعَدُ مِنَ المَدِينَةِ نَحْوَ السَّماءِ. وَلَمْ يكُنْ لَهُمْ مَهْرَبٌ فِي أيِّ اتِّجاهٍ، لِأنَّ الشَّعبَ الَّذِي كانَ يَتَظاهَرُ بِالهَرَبِ نَحوَ البَرِّيَّةِ، دارَ إلَى الخَلْفِ ضِدَّ مُطارِديهِ.

21 W hen Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.

فَحِينَ رَأى يَشُوعُ وَكُلُّ إسْرائِيلَ أنَّ جُنُودَ الكَمِينِ سَيطَرُوا عَلَى المَدِينَةِ وَأنَّ الدُّخانَ يَرتَفِعُ مِنْها، التَفَتُوا إلَى الخَلْفِ وَهاجَمُوا رِجالَ عايَ.

22 T he others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

وَخَرَجَ جُنُودُ إسرائِيلَ عَلَيهِمْ مِنَ المَدِينَةِ، فَحاصَرَ بَنُو إسْرائِيلَ رِجالَ عايَ مِنْ كُلِّ الجِهاتِ. فَهاجَمَهُمْ بَنُو إسْرائِيلَ حَتَّى لَمْ يَنجُ أحَدٌ مِنْهُمْ.

23 T hey captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.

وَلَكِنَّ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ أمسَكُوا بِمَلِكِ عايَ حَيّاً وَأحضَرُوهُ إلَى يَشُوعَ.

24 W hen Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

وَلَمّا انتَهَى رِجالُ إسْرائِيلَ مِنْ قَتلِ كُلِّ سُكّانِ عايَ فِي الحُقُولِ وَالبَرِّيَّةِ حَيثُ طارَدُوهُمْ، وَسَقَطُوا جَمِيعاً بِحَدِّ السَّيفِ إلَى آخِرِ رَجُلٍ مِنْهُمْ، عادَ جَيشُ إسْرائِيلَ إلَى عايَ وَهاجَمُوها بِحَدِّ السَّيفِ.

25 A ll that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

وَكانَ مَجمُوعُ الَّذِينَ قُتِلُوا فِي ذَلِكَ اليَومِ مِنْ رِجالٍ وَنِساءٍ اثنَي عَشَرَ ألفاً، أي جَميعَ شَعبِ عايَ.

26 F or Joshua didn’t draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

وَلَمْ يَرُدَّ يَشُوعُ رُمْحَهُ كَعلامَةٍ لِلهُجُومِ، حَتَّى تَمَّ إهلاكُ جَمِيعَ سُكّانِ عايَ تَماماً.

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

وَسَبَى بَنُو إسْرائِيلَ حَيواناتِ وَخَيراتِ تِلْكَ المَدِينَةِ لِأنفُسِهِمْ كَما أمَرَ اللهُ يَشُوعَ.

28 S o Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.

فَأحرَقَ يَشُوعُ عايَ وَجَعَلَها كَومَةَ خَرائِبَ إلَى الأبَدِ، كَما هوَ حالُها إلَى هَذا اليَومِ.

29 H e 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.

وَعَلَّقَ مَلِكَ عايَ عَلَى شَجَرَةٍ إلَى المَساءِ. وَفِي المَساءِ أمَرَ يَشُوعُ، فَأنزَلُوا جَسَدَهُ المَيِّتَ مِنْ عَلَى الشَّجَرَةِ، وَألقُوهُ عِندَ بَوّابَةِ المَدِينَةِ، وَأقامُوا عَلَيهِ كَومَةَ صُخُورٍ عَظِيمَةً باقِيَةً إلَى هَذا اليَومِ. البَرَكاتُ وَاللَّعْنات

30 T hen Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,

ثُمَّ بَنَى يَشُوعُ مَذْبَحاً للهِ ، إلَهِ إسْرائِيلَ، عَلَى جَبَلِ عِيبالَ،

31 a s Moses the servant of Yahweh 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 Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.

كَما أمَرَ مُوسَى خادِمُ اللهِ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ، وَكَما هوَ مُدَوَّنٌ فِي كِتابِ شَرِيعَةِ مُوسَى. فَكانَ المَذْبَحُ مِنْ حِجارَةٍ كامِلَةٍ لَمْ تُستَخدَمْ فِيهِ أداةٌ حَدِيدِيَّةٌ. ثُمَّ قَدَّمُوا عَلَيهِ ذَبائِحَ صاعِدَةً للهِ وَذَبَحُوا ذَبائِحَ سَلامَةٍ.

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

وَنَقَشَ يَشُوعُ – بِحُضُورِ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ – نُسخَةً مِنْ شَرِيعَةِ مُوسَى عَلَى الحِجارَةِ.

33 A ll 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 Yahweh’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 Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

وَكانَ جَمِيعُ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ، المُواطِنِينَ مِنْهُمْ وَالأجانِبَ المُقِيمينَ، مَعَ شُيُوخِهِمْ وَقادَتِهِمْ وَقُضاتِهِمْ، واقِفِينَ عَلَى جانِبَيِّ الصُّنْدُوقِ أمامَ الكَهَنَةِ اللّاوِيِّينَ الَّذِينَ حَمَلُوا صُنْدُوقَ عَهدِ اللهِ. وَقَفَ نِصْفُ الشَّعبِ مِنْ جِهَةِ جَبَلِ جِرِزِّيمَ، وَالنِّصْفُ الآخَرُ مِنْ جِهَةِ جَبَلِ عِيبالَ، كَما أمَرَ مُوسَى خادِمُ اللهِ فِي البِدايَةِ لِبَرَكَةِ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ.

34 A fterward 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.

وَقَرَأ يَشُوعُ كَلامَ الشَّرِيعَةِ، أي البَرَكاتِ وَاللَّعْناتِ، كَما هوَ مَكتُوبٌ فِيهِ.

35 T here 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.

وَلَمْ تُتْرَكْ كَلِمَةٌ أوصَى بِها مُوسَى، بَلْ قَرأها يَشُوعُ كُلَّها أمامَ بَنِي إسْرائِيلَ وَالنِّساءِ وَالأطفالِ وَالأجانِبِ المُقِيمينَ بَينَهُمْ.