Joshua 8
1 Hichejou chun Pakaiyin Joshua kommah chun aseije, “Kicha hih’in, lungthoina jong neihih’in, nasepai hochu puijinlangAi khopi khu gadelkhumtan, ajeh chu Ai lengpa le amipite, akhopi le agamchu nangma khutna kapehdoh ahitai.
The LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Look, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
2 Jericho le alengpao nasuhgam banga amaho jong nasuhgam ding, amavang tuchunga hi agancha houleh anei agou nachomdoh houchu nakilah theiju ahi. Akhopiu nunglanga khun gachangpang tauvin,” ati.
You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."
3 Hitichun Joshua leh asepaite chu Ai khopi gadelkhum dingin akontouvun ahi. Joshua’n asepaite lah’a galsat hatcheh sangsom thum alhengdoh’in jannin asoldoh’in,
So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
4 Hitihin thupeh aneiyin ahi: “Nangho cheuvinlang khopi nunglanga khun kinaichan gachangpang’unlang khopi delkhum dingkhun kigosademmin ummun,
He commanded them, saying, "Look, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.
5 Hiteng chuleh keile kaloiho chengin khopi chu kadellutdiu chutengleh amasa-abang bangchun amaho keiho satdin hungkondoh’un tin chutengleh amaho masanga chu keiho kajamdiu ahi.
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.
6 Khopia konna chu keihon amaho chu kakidelmang sahdiu, chutengleh amahon Israelte hi amasa bang banga imasang’uva jamkitna ahitauve atidiu ahi. Chujouteng chuleh keiho amahoa konna kajam sunguva chu,
They 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,
7 Nangho nachangpan nauva konchun hungpotdoh’unlang akhopiu chu nalonvuh jengdiu ahi, na Pakai na Pathennun nangho khutna nahin pehdohdiu ahi.
and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
8 Chutengleh Pakaiyin nathupeh bang bangun akhopiu chu meiyin hallha jengun hichu thupeh ahi,” ati.
It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the word of the LORD. Look, I have commanded you."
9 Hitichun amaho akipatdoh’un Bethel leh Ai khopi lhumlam kikah achangpanna diu munnah chun ache tauvin ahi. Ahinlah Joshua chu hichejou chun mipiho toh ngahmunna chun agehkhommun ahi.
Joshua 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.
10 Joshua chu jingkah langin matah’in akipatnin amite asuthouvin Ai khopi lang ajontan, hichea hin Israel upa hon ana juijun ahi.
Joshua rose up early in the morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders, before the people to Ai.
11 Joshua chu amatoh umkhom sepaiho chengchutoh khopi maija chun akijotnun sahlanga chun ngahmun asemmun ahi. Amaholeh Ai kikah’a chun phaicham khat aummin ahi.
All the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and camped on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between him and Ai.
12 Chuin aman mi sang nga tobang apuijin Bethel leh Ai khopi kikah khopi lhumlamma chun achangpansah’in ahi.
He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
13 Hitichun asepai bulpi penchu khopi sahlanga apansah’in chuleh khopi lhumlamma chun changpangloi akoiyin, Joshua amatah chu phaichamma chun ageh’in ahi.
So 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 midst of the valley.
14 Ai lengpan phaicham langa um Israelte chu agahmu phatnin amale asepaite jouse chun jingpitah’in Jordan phaicham gah kigalmuna munna chun anokhum tauvin ahi. Ahinla khopi nunglanga chun amaho aguh’a chaangpanga aumme tichu aman ahetlou ahi.
And it happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that he hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out to engage them directly in battle, he and all his people, to the meeting place in front of the Arabah; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
15 Joshua leh Israel sepaite chu gallel tobang'in gammang langa chun ajamtauvin ahi.
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
16 Hichechun khopi sunga umjouse chu akikoudoh’un abonchauvin amaho chu adeltauvin, hitichun amaho chu khopia konchun alhemdoh tauvin ahi.
All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
17 Ai ahilouleh Bethella chun mi khatcha kidalha louvin Israelte chu adelsohkei tauvin ahi. Hitichun khopi ahomkeuvin adalha tauvin ahi.
There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
18 Hiche jouchun Pakaiyin Joshua komma chun hitin ahin seije, “Natengchao chu domsang’unlang Ai khopi lang ngatsah tauvin, ajeh chu keiman hichekhu nangho khutna kapehdoh ahitai” ati. Hichun Joshua’n akhutna um atengcha chu adomsang’in khopi langchu agah ngatsahtan ahi.
The LORD 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.
19 Joshua’n akhut adopsang phatnin changpang ho jouse chu akiselnauva kon in ahung potdoh’un khopi langa chun alonglut jeng tauvin ahi. Amahon gangtah’in khopi chu alouvin meiyin ahallha tauvin ahi.
The 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.
20 Ai khomite chu akinung heijun agah veuvin ahileh, khopia konna meikhu chu vanlaijol langa akitung jengin ahileh chenading helouvin abeiden tauvin ahi. Ajeh chu Israelte gammang langa ana jamlut hochu ahung kileheijun amaho chu ahinledal tauvin ahi.
When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and look, 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.
21 Joshua leh Israelte chun apanlah nauchu alolhing’in khopia konchun meikhu akitungdoh tai tichu amuphatnun ahung kileheijun Ai mite chu ahin delkhum tauvin ahi.
When 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.
22 Alangkhatnah khopi sunga um Israelte chu ahungpotdoh’un galmi hochu anunglang uva kon in ahin delkhum uvin, hitichun Ai khopi mite chu ajet aveijuva Israelten aumchinto tauvin amaho alailunga chatmo hellin aumtauve. Israelten adelkhummun mi khat ajong asohcha ahilouleh ahingdoh’a aumpouve.
The others came out of the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
23 Ai lengpa changseh chu ahingin amannun Joshua kommah ahin puilutnun ahi.
They captured the king of Ai alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 Israel sepaiten Ai mite chu adel’uva tollhanga umjouse chu athajou phatnun amaho akinung heijun asunga langa umjouse jongchu athatchai heltauvin ahi.
And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the plains, and on the mountain on the slope, where they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
25 Hitichun Ai khopi sunga cheng mipite jouse, numeiti pasalti abonchan hiche nikho chun athatgam soh hellun ahileh mi sangsom le sangni alhingin ahi.
All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
26 Ai khopi sunga cheng jouse chu akisuhmanghel kahsen Joshua’n atengcha chu adomsang jing jengin ahi.
For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
27 Pakaiyin Joshua athupeh bangin, khopi sunga um agancha houleh anei agouhou chu sumang louvin Israelten amaho chandingin akichom tauve.
Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.
28 Hitichun Joshua’n Ai khopi chu ahallhatan ahileh hichu tuni changgeijin amangthah paitan ahi.
So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.
29 Joshua’n Ai lengpa chu nilhahlang geijin thingchungah anakhaijin, ni ahunglhum phatnin Joshua thupeh dungjuijin atahsa chu thingchunga kon in alalhauvin, khopi kelkot maija chun anaseplhauvin ahi. Amahon achunga chun song asetkhummun tuni changgeijin mutheijin aumnalaije.
He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at the 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.
30 Hijouchun Joshua’n Ebal mol chungah Pakai Israel Pathen kommah maicham asemmin,
Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal,
31 Pakai lhacha Mose’in Israel chate anathupeh Mose daanbua anakijih bangin, thih hemma ana kikheng khalou songtum maicham chungah pumgo thilto leh chamna thilto anabollin ahi.
as Moses the servant of the LORD 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 man has touched with an iron tool." They offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
32 Hitichun aman Israelte mitmu changtah chun Mose daan thupeh hochu song chunga chun anajihdoh’in ahi.
He wrote there on the stones a copy of the Law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
33 Hiche jouchun Israelte jouse agam sunga pengdenho ahin khopem mi ahiuvin, upa ho jouse, vaihom ho jouse le thutanho jouse ahiuvin hopnin akihommun, hopkhat chu Gerazin mol maija adingun, hopkhat chu Ebal mol maija adingun ahi. Ahopni chun aki-angngat touvin akikah uvah Pakai kitepna thingkongpu Levi thempuho chu adingun ahi. Hichehi Israel mipiten phatthei achanna diuva Pakailhacha Mose thupeh dungjuija anaboljiu dungjuija chu abollu ahi.
All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried the ark of the LORD'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 the LORD had commanded at the first, that they should bless the children of Israel.
34 Hiche jouchun Mose’n adaan lekhabua anajihlut phatthei bohna le sapsetna hochu Joshua’n mipi ang’ah chun asimdoh’in ahi.
Afterward 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.
35 Mose thupeh thuchengho jouse chu Israel mipi ahung kikhomho leh, nunao chapangho, chuleh alah’uva cheng gamdangmi ho pumma ajahsohkei diuvin asimdoh soh hellin ahi.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
