- The leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the whole congregation, just as the leaders had spoken to them.
- Then Joshua called for them and spoke to them, saying, "Why have you deceived us, saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you are living within our land?
- "Now therefore, you are cursed, and you shall never cease being slaves, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God."
- So they answered Joshua and said, "Because it was certainly told your servants that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you; therefore we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
- "Now behold, we are in your hands; do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us."
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- 首領又對會眾說、要容他們活著.於是他們為全會眾作了劈柴挑水的人、正如首領對他們所說的話。
- 約書亞召了他們來、對他們說、為甚麼欺哄我們說、我們離你們甚遠呢.其實你們是住在我們中間。
- 現在你們是被咒詛的.你們中間的人、必斷不了作奴僕、為我 神的殿、作劈柴挑水的人。
- 他們回答約書亞說、因為有人實在告訴你的僕人、耶和華你的 神曾吩咐他的僕人摩西、把這全地賜給你們、並在你們面前滅絕這地的一切居民.所以我們為你們的緣故、甚怕喪命、就行了這事。
- 現在我們在你手中、你以怎樣待我們為善為正、就怎樣作罷。
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