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Then they approached Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and addressed him and the Israelis, “We’ve arrived from a distant country, so please make a treaty with us right now.”

But the Israelis responded to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live in our midst. If this is so,[a] how can we make a treaty with you?”

So they responded to Joshua, “We are your servants.”

Joshua asked them, “Who are you? And where did you come from?”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 9:7 The Heb. lacks If this is so

Then they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal(A) and said to him and the Israelites, “We have come from a distant country;(B) make a treaty(C) with us.”

The Israelites said to the Hivites,(D) “But perhaps you live near us, so how can we make a treaty(E) with you?”

“We are your servants,(F)” they said to Joshua.

But Joshua asked, “Who are you and where do you come from?”

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