Joshua 9:19-21

English Standard Version

¹⁹ But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them. ²⁰ This we will do to them: let them live, lest ^(A)wrath be upon us, ^(B)because of the oath that we swore to them.” ²¹ And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became ^(C)cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders ^(D)had said of them.