21. And the leaders said to them, Let them live [and be our slaves]. So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the assembly, just as the leaders had said of them.
22. Joshua called the men and said, Why did you deceive us, saying, We live very far from you, when you dwell among us?
23. Now therefore you are cursed, and of you there shall always be slaves, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.