Joshua 9:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷ But the Israelites said to the Hivites, ‘Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a treaty with you?’ ⁸ They said to Joshua, ‘We are your servants.’ And Joshua said to them, ‘Who are you? And where do you come from?’ ⁹ They said to him, ‘Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God; for we have heard a report of him, of all that he did in Egypt,