⁹ Joshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

⁸ He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh, and called on the name of Yahweh.

²¹ So the present passed over before him: and he himself lodged that night in the camp.

² Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai.

¹² He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

²⁸ The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.

³² The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.