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And he commanded them, saying, “Look, you are to lay an ambush against the city from behind. Do not go very far from the city and be ready. Then I and all of the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they go out to meet us as before,[a] we will flee from them.[b] They will come out after us until we draw them away from the city, because they will think, ‘They are fleeing from us[c] as before.’[d] So we will flee from them.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:5 Literally “as that at the first occasion
  2. Joshua 8:5 Or “before their presence”
  3. Joshua 8:6 Or “before our presence”
  4. Joshua 8:6 Literally “as that at the first occasion
  5. Joshua 8:6 Or “before their presence”

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. I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them. They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, ‘They are running away from us as they did before.’ So when we flee from them,

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