²⁵ So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand—all the people of Ai.

¹⁶ “But ^(A)of the cities of these peoples which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, you shall let nothing that breathes remain alive, ¹⁷ but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you, ¹⁸ lest ^(B)they teach you to do according to all their ^[a]abominations which they have done for their gods, and you ^(C)sin against the Lord your God.