Joshua 9:23 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²³ When Adonisedec king of Jerusalem had heard these things, to wit, that Josue had taken Hai, and had destroyed it, (for as he had done to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai, and its king,) and that the Gabaonites were gone over to Israel, and were their confederates,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondmen, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

Common English Bible

²³ So now you are cursed. Some of you will always serve as woodcutters and water haulers for my God’s house.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Therefore, you shall be under a curse, and your stock shall not cease to be cutters of wood and carriers of water, into the house of my God."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water unto the house of my God.

Joshua 9:23 Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:11

6 For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have passed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,

Joshua 9:21

6 So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be slain.

Joshua 9:27

So the five kings of the Amorrhites being assembled together went up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they and their armies, and camped about Gabaon, laying siege to it.