Joshua 9:19-20
9:19 but all the leaders told the whole community, “We swore an oath to them in the name of 1 the Lord God of Israel. So now we can’t hurt 2 them!
9:20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.” 3
1 tn Heb “to them by….”
2 tn Or “touch.”
3 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.”