They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don't make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them."
Abuyela kuYoshuwa, athi kuye, Mabangenyuki bonke abantu; makunyuke amadoda amayela kumawaka amabini, nokuba ngamadoda amayela kumawaka amathathu, ayichithe iAyi. Musa ukubadinisa bonke abantu ngokubasa khona; kuba abaa bantu bambalwa.