⁴ with these orders: “Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.

⁷ you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand.^(A)

⁸ When you have taken the city, set it on fire.^(A) Do what the Lord has commanded.^(B) See to it; you have my orders.”