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He ordered them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready! I and all the troops[a] who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to fight us like before, we will retreat from them. They will attack[b] us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say, ‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 8:5 tn Heb “the people.”
  2. Joshua 8:6 tn Heb “come out after.”

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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