¹⁵ Then Joshua and all Israel ^[a]pretended to be defeated before them, and fled ^(A)by the way of the wilderness.

²⁴ Now when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them had 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.