and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law. 008:035 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them. 009:001 It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it; 009:002 that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. 009:003 But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, 009:004 they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up, 009:005 and old and patched shoes on their feet, and old garments on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become moldy. 009:006 They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make you a covenant with us. 009:007 The men of Israel said to the Hivites, What if you dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you? 009:008 They said to Joshua, We are your servants. Joshua said to them, Who are you? and from whence come you? 009:009 They said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of the name of Yahweh your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, 009:010 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. 009:011 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants: and now make you a covenant with us. 009:012 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become moldy: 009:013 and these wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. 009:014 The men took of their provision, and didn't ask counsel at the mouth of Yahweh. 009:015 Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them. 009:016 It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.