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Joshua 8:29-31
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29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening.[a] At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree.[b] They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day).[c]

Covenant Renewal

30 Then Joshua built an altar for the Lord God of Israel on Mount Ebal, 31 just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites. As described in the law scroll of Moses, it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool.[d] On it they offered burnt sacrifices to the Lord and sacrificed tokens of peace.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:29 tn Heb “on a tree until evening.” The words “leaving him exposed” are supplied in the translation for clarity.
  2. Joshua 8:29 sn For the legal background of this action, see Deut 21:22-23.
  3. Joshua 8:29 tn Heb “to this day.”
  4. Joshua 8:31 tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones on which no one had wielded iron.” The expression “whole stones” refers to stones in their natural condition, i.e., not carved or shaped artificially with tools (“wielded iron”).
  5. Joshua 8:31 tn Or “peace offerings.”
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