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.
24. They answered Joshua, Because it was surely told your servants that the Lord your God commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the land's inhabitants from before you. So we feared greatly for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
25. And now, behold, we are in your hand; do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us.
26. So he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the Israelites, so that they did not kill them.