Joshua 9:21

The leaders then added, "Let them live." So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided.

Deuteronomy 29:11

your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water --

Joshua 9:23

Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God."

Joshua 9:27

and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)

Joshua 9:15

Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.

2 Chronicles 2:17-18

Solomon took a census of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all.

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And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

As the princes

Bible References

Let them

Joshua 9:23
Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God."
Deuteronomy 29:11
your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water --
2 Chronicles 2:17
Solomon took a census of all the male resident foreigners in the land of Israel, after the census his father David had taken. There were 153,600 in all.

As the princes

Joshua 9:15
Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.

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