But the men of Israel said to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you are living within our land; how then are we to make a covenant with you?”

以色列人对这些希未人说：“只怕你们是住在我们中间的；若是这样，怎能和你们立约呢？”

以色列人对希未人说：“或许你是住在我附近的。若是这样，我怎能和你立约呢？”

以色列人对希未人说：“或许你是住在我附近的。若是这样，我怎能和你立约呢？”

以色列人对这些希未人说：“你们也许就住在附近。我们怎么能跟你们缔结盟约呢？”

以色列人对这些希未人说：“你们也许是这地的居民，若是这样，我们怎样和你们立约呢？”

以色列人對這些希未人說：「只怕你們是住在我們中間的；若是這樣，怎能和你們立約呢？」

以色列人對希未人說：「或許你是住在我附近的。若是這樣，我怎能和你立約呢？」

以色列人對希未人說：「或許你是住在我附近的。若是這樣，我怎能和你立約呢？」

以色列人對這些希未人說：「你們也許就住在附近。我們怎麼能跟你們締結盟約呢？」

以色列人對這些希未人說：“你們也許是這地的居民，若是這樣，我們怎樣和你們立約呢？”

以色列人對這些希未人說：『只怕你們是住在我們中間的，那我們怎能和你們立約呢？』

以色列人謂希未人曰、爾殆居於我中、焉能與爾立約、

以色列族謂自基遍來之希未人、曰、恐爾居處離我不遠、焉能與爾立約。

以色列人謂此希未人曰、恐爾居於我中、焉能與爾立約乎、

The Israelites said to the Hivites,“ But perhaps you live near us, so how can we make a treaty with you?”

The Israelites said to the Hivites,“ But suppose you live close to us. If you do, we can’t make a peace treaty with you.”

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”

The Israelites replied to these Hivites,“ How do we know you don’t live nearby? For if you do, we cannot make a treaty with you.”

The men of Israel replied to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you live among us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

Then the men of Israel said to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you dwell among us; so how can we make a covenant with you?”

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?

The men of Israel replied to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you live among us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

The men of Israel said to the Hivites,“ Perhaps you live near us. So how can we make a treaty with you?”

The men of Israel said to the Hivites,“ What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?”

There was not a city which made peace with the sons of Israel except the Hivites living in Gibeon; they took them all in battle.

and as for you, you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed Me; what is this thing that you have done?

and when the Lord your God turns them over to you and you defeat them, you shall utterly destroy them. You shall not make a covenant with them nor be gracious to them.Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them: you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from you, and destroy all their idolatrous sculptures, destroy all their cast metal images, and eliminate all their high places;

When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her and raped her.

Be careful that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.

Now it came about when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, the lowland, and on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard about it,

Only in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave anything that breathes alive.

I will set your boundary from the Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River; for I will hand over the inhabitants of the land to you, and you will drive them out from you.You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, it is certain to be a snare to you.”

the Hivite, the Arkite, the Sinite,