Joshua 9:19-21

21st Century King James Version

¹⁹ But all the princes said unto all the congregation, “We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

²⁰ This we will do to them: we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore unto them.”

²¹ And the princes said unto them, “Let them live, but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had promised them.”