Joshua 9:20-22

Modern English Version

²⁰ This is what we will do to them. We will let them live so that wrath will not come upon us due to the oath that we swore to them.” ²¹ The leaders of the congregation also said to them, “Let them live!” So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation, as the leaders told them.

²² Joshua met them and said, “Why did you trick us, saying, ‘We are very distant from you,’ but you are living in our midst?