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They chose provisions for a journey, making use of old sacks for their donkeys, and old wineskins, torn and mended. <span id="v06009005" class="ver">5</span>They wore old, patched sandals and shabby garments; and all the bread they took was dry and crumbly. <span id="v06009006" class="ver">6</span>Thus they journeyed to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal, where they said to him and to the Israelites, “We have come from a far-off land; now, make a covenant with us.”<a id="ren06009006-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06009006-c">c</a> <span id="v06009007" class="ver">7</span>But the Israelites replied to the Hivites,<a id="rfn06009007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn06009007-1">*</a> “You may be living in land that is ours. How, then, can we make a covenant with you?” <span id="v06009008" class="ver">8</span>But they answered Joshua, “We are your servants.” Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?” <span id="v06009009" class="ver">9</span>They answered him, “Your servants have come from a far-off land, because of the fame of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God. For we have heard reports of all that he did in Egypt<a id="ren06009009-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06009009-d">d</a> <span id="v06009010" class="ver">10</span>and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan,<a id="ren06009010-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06009010-e">e</a> Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth. <span id="v06009011" class="ver">11</span>So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land said to us, ‘Take along provisions for the journey and go to meet them. Say to them: “We are your servants; now make a covenant with us.” ’ <span id="v06009012" class="ver">12</span>This bread of ours was still warm when we brought it from home as provisions the day we left to come to you, but now it is dry and crumbly. <span id="v06009013" class="ver">13</span>Here are our wineskins, which were new when we filled them, but now they are torn. Look at our garments and sandals; they are worn out from the very long journey.” <span id="v06009014" class="ver">14</span>Then the Israelite leaders partook of their provisions, without inquiring of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren06009014-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06009014-f">f</a> <span id="v06009015" class="ver">15</span>So Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant to let them live,<a id="ren06009015-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06009015-g">g</a> which the leaders of the community sealed with an oath.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Gibeonites Made Vassals.</span> <span id="v06009016" class="ver">16</span>Three days after the covenant was made, the Israelites heard that these people were from nearby, and would be living in Israel. <span id="v06009017" class="ver">17</span>The third day on the road, the Israelites came to their cities of Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim, <span id="v06009018" class="ver">18</span>but did not attack them, because the leaders of the community had sworn to them by the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of Israel. When the entire community grumbled against the leaders, <span id="v06009019" class="ver">19</span>these all remonstrated with the community, “We have sworn to them by the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, and so we cannot harm them. <span id="v06009020" class="ver">20</span>Let us therefore let them live, and so deal with them that no wrath fall upon us because of the oath we have sworn to them.”<a id="ren06009020-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06009020-h">h</a> <span id="v06009021" class="ver">21</span>Thus the leaders said to them, “Let them live, and become hewers of wood and drawers of water<a id="rfn06009021-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn06009021-1">*</a> for the entire community.” So the community did as the leaders advised them.<a id="ren06009021-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06009021-i">i</a></p> <p><span id="v06009022" class="ver">22</span>Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you deceive us and say, ‘We live far off from you’?—You live among us! <span id="v06009023" class="ver">23</span>Now are you accursed: every one of you shall always be a slave, hewers of wood and drawers of water, for the house of my God.” <span id="v06009024" class="ver">24</span>They answered Joshua, “Your servants were fully informed of how the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, commanded Moses his servant that you be given the entire land and that all its inhabitants be destroyed before you. Since, therefore, at your advance, we were in great fear for our lives, we acted as we did.<a id="ren06009024-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06009024-j">j</a> <span id="v06009025" class="ver">25</span>And now that we are in your power, do with us what is good and right in your eyes.” <span id="v06009026" class="ver">26</span><a id="rfn06009026-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn06009026-1">*</a> Joshua did what he had decided: while he saved them from being killed by the Israelites, <span id="v06009027" class="ver">27</span>on that day he made them, as they still are, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the community and for the altar of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, in the place the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> would choose.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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