Joshua 9:20 - 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.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ This we will do to them: we will let them live, lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we swore to them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

Common English Bible

²⁰ This is what we’ll do with them. We’ll let them live so that wrath won’t come down on us because of the solemn pledge that we made to them.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ But we shall do this to them: Certainly, let them be preserved so that they may live, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, since we would have sworn falsely.

Joshua 9:20 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 36:13

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by an oath by God. He stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord God of Israel.

Proverbs 20:25

It is a snare for a man to devote rashly a thing as holy, and after making vows to reconsider his consecration.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Romans 1:31

without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, calloused, and unmerciful,

1 Timothy 1:10

for the sexually immoral, for practicing homosexuals, for slave traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for anything else that is contrary to sound teaching,

Joshua 9:19

Yet all the leaders said to the whole congregation, “We swore to them by the Lord God of Israel, so now we may not harm them.

Joshua 9:21

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.