“The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?””

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Joshua 9 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.