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And where do you come from?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God; for we have heard a report of him, of all that he did in Egypt, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>and of all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, King Sihon of Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan who lived in Ashtaroth. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>So our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, ‘Take provisions in your hand for the journey; go to meet them, and say to them, “We are your servants; come now, make a treaty with us.”’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Here is our bread; it was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey, on the day we set out to come to you, but now, see, it is dry and moldy; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>these wineskins were new when we filled them, and see, they are burst; and these garments and sandals of ours are worn out from the very long journey.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>So the leaders<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-6052b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> partook of their provisions, and did not ask direction from the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>And Joshua made peace with them, guaranteeing their lives by a treaty; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>But when three days had passed after they had made a treaty with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and were living among them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>So the Israelites set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, and now we must not touch them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that wrath may not come upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>The leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the leaders had decided concerning them.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Joshua summoned them, and said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ while in fact you are living among us? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you; so we were in great fear for our lives because of you, and did this thing. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>And now we are in your hand: do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>This is what he did for them: he saved them from the Israelites; and they did not kill them. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>But on that day Joshua made them hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, to continue to this day, in the place that he should choose.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Joshua 9:4">Joshua 9:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Joshua 9:14">Joshua 9:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>men</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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