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Joshua 9:19-21
New English Translation
Joshua 9:19-21
New English Translation
19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of[a] the Lord God of Israel! So now we can’t hurt[b] them. 20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.”[c] 21 The leaders then added,[d] “Let them live.” So they became[e] woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided.[f]
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- Joshua 9:19 tn Heb “to them by….”
- Joshua 9:19 tn Or “touch.”
- Joshua 9:20 tn Heb “This is what we will do to them, keeping them alive so there will not be upon us anger concerning the oath which we swore to them.”
- Joshua 9:21 tc Heb “and the leaders said to them.” The LXX omits the words “and the leaders said to them.”
- Joshua 9:21 tn The vav (ו) consecutive construction in the Hebrew text suggests that the narrative resumes at this point. The LXX reads here, “and they will be,” understanding what follows to be a continuation of the leaders’ words rather than a comment by the narrator.
- Joshua 9:21 tn Heb “as the leaders said to them.”
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