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15 Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live. the leaders of the congregation ratified it by an oath.
16 But three days after they had made the treaty with them, they learned that they were their neighbors and were living in their midst.
17 And the Israelites set out and went to their cities on the third day (their cities were Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim).
18 But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against their leaders.
19 But all the leaders of the congregation said, "We have sworn to them by the LORD the God of Israel, and so we cannot touch them.
20 This we will do to them: we will let them live so that wrath will not be on us because of the oath we swore to them."