² And thou shalt do to Ai and to her king as^◦ thou didst unto Jericho and her king; only her spoil and her beasts shall you plunder for yourselves; set for thee an ambush for the city from behind it.

³¹ And the sons of Benjamin went·​·out to meet the people, and were pulled·​·away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and they were·​·slain as at other times in the highways, of which one goes·​·up to Bethel and one to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men^◦ in Israel.