Joshua 9:19 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁹ but all the leaders answered, ‘We have given them our oath by the Lord, the God of Israel, and we cannot touch them now.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ But all the leaders said to all the assembly, We have sworn to them by the Lord, the God of Israel, so now we may not touch them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by Jehovah, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Then all the leaders said to the whole community, “We have made a solemn pledge to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. So we can’t touch them now.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ And they responded to them: "We have sworn to them in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, and for that reason, we are not able to touch them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ And they answered them: We have sworn to them in the name of the Lord the God of Israel, and therefore we may not touch them.

Joshua 9:19 Tagairtí Cros

Ecclesiastes 8:2

Obey the king’s command, I say, because you took an oath before God.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

All share a common destiny – the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As it is with the good, so with the sinful; as it is with those who take oaths, so with those who are afraid to take them.

Jeremiah 4:2

and if in a truthful, just and righteous way you swear, “As surely as the Lord lives,” then the nations will invoke blessings by him and in him they will boast.’

Joshua 9:18

But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the assembly had sworn an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. The whole assembly grumbled against the leaders,

Joshua 9:20

This is what we will do to them: we will let them live, so that God’s wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them.’