23. Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be slaves, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”
24. They answered Joshua, and said, “Because your servants were certainly told how the Lord your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
25. Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do.”
26. He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn’t kill them.
27. That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the Lord’s altar to this day, in the place which he should choose.