Why did you deceive us

22Then Joshua called for them and spoke to them, saying, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you are living among us?”

23So now you are cursed, and there shall never cease to be from among you servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

24They answered Joshua and said, “Because it was clearly told to your servants what Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses: to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you. So we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and we did this thing.”

25And now, here we are in your hand. Do to us as it is good and right in your eyes to do.