7The men of Israel said to the Hivites, |What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?|
7The men of Israel said to the Hivites, |What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?|
4 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,
5 and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.
6 They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, |We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.|
7 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, |What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?|
8 They said to Joshua, |We are your servants.| Joshua said to them, |Who are you? Where do you come from?|
9 They said to him, |Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
9:7The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "But perhaps you live near us. How then can we make a treaty with you?"
9:7And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
9:7Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can make no league with you.
9:7And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?
9:7And the men of Israel said to the Hivite, Perhaps thou dwellest in the midst of us, and how should I make a covenant with thee?
9:7And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?
9:7And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
9:7and the men of Israel say unto the Hivite, 'It may be in our midst ye are dwelling, and how do we make with thee a covenant?'
9:7And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Peradventure you dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?