Joshua 9:23-27 - WEB
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Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.
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They answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, how that Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
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Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do.
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So did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they didn`t kill them.
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That day Joshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.
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