OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 9:8

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They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”

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Verse 8. Servants. They did not mean to submit to servitude, but to make a league; otherwise they would not have needed to have recourse to such artifices. Calmet.—But finding that no other terms could be procured, they were willing, at any rate, to save their lives. Bible.

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