Joshua 9:23

Therefore you are cursed and will always be slaves—woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

Joshua 9:21

They also said, “Let them live.” So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had promised them.

Joshua 9:27

On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers—as they are today—for the community and for the Lord’s altar at the place He would choose.

Genesis 9:25-26

he said:

Canaan will be cursed.
He will be the lowest of slaves to his brothers.

Leviticus 27:28-29

“Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the Lord from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the Lord.

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Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

Hewers

General references

Bible References

Cursed

Leviticus 27:28
“Nothing that a man permanently sets apart to the Lord from all he owns, whether a person, an animal, or his inherited landholding, can be sold or redeemed; everything set apart is especially holy to the Lord.

Hewers

Joshua 9:21
They also said, “Let them live.” So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had promised them.

General references

Joshua 9:8
They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.”

Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where do you come from?”

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