⁹ Joshua set up the twelve stones^(A) that had been^[a] in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.^(B)

²⁵ But Joshua spared^(A) Rahab the prostitute,^(B) with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho^(C)—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.

²⁸ So Joshua burned^(A) Ai^[a](B) and made it a permanent heap of ruins,^(C) a desolate place to this day.^(D)