"I do not regret it." he said. "It is better to be defeated battling for an honest idea, than to win by a cowardly trick."

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Another Canaanite group, the Gibeonites, trick the Israelites into making a covenant with them, and it is a covenant the Israelites then feel bound to observe.

另一个迦南群体是基便人，他们诱骗以色列人与他们签订契约，以色列人后来觉得理应遵守这一契约。

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