Yosua 9:19-21

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  9:21 The leaders then added, ⁴  “Let them live.” So they became ⁵  woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided. ⁶ 

[9:19]  ¹ tn Heb “to them by….”

[9:19]  ² tn Or “touch.”

[9:20]  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.”

[9:21]  ⁴ tc Heb “and the leaders said to them.” The LXX omits the words “and the leaders said to them.”

[9:21]  ⁵ 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.

[9:21]  ⁶ tn Heb “as the leaders said to them.”