Joshua 9:23

Therefore you [are] cursed; some of you will always be slaves as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God."

Joshua 9:21

And the leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said to them.

Joshua 9:27

And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place that he should choose.

Genesis 9:25-26

And he said, "Cursed [be] Canaan, a slave of slaves he shall be to his brothers."

Leviticus 27:28-29

However, anything devoted that a man has devoted to Yahweh {from all that he has}, from human or animal, or from the field of his property, may not be sold, and it may not be redeemed; anything devoted [is] {a most holy thing} for Yahweh.

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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
However, anything devoted that a man has devoted to Yahweh {from all that he has}, from human or animal, or from the field of his property, may not be sold, and it may not be redeemed; anything devoted [is] {a most holy thing} for Yahweh.

Hewers

Joshua 9:21
And the leaders said to them, "Let them live." So they became woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said to them.

General references

Joshua 9:8
They said to Joshua, "We [are] your servants." And Joshua said to them, "Who [are] you, and from where do you come?"