16. Now three days after the league was made, they heard that they dwelt nigh, and they should be among them.
17. And the children of Israel removed the camp, and came into their cities on the third day, the names of which are Gabaon, and Caphira, and Beroth, and Cariathiarim.
18. And they slew them not, because the princes of the multitude had sworn in the name of the Lord the God of Israel. Then all the common people murmured against the princes.
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.
20. But this we mill do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn.
21. But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things,