Joshua 9:23 - Easy To Read Version

²³ Now, your people will have many troubles. All of your people will be slaves—they will have to cut wood and carry water for the house of God. [46] ”

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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

Your wives and children are here and also the foreigners living among you—the people who cut your wood and bring you water.

Joshua 9:21

So let them live. But they will be our servants. They will cut wood for us and carry water for all of our people.” So the leaders did not break their promise of peace to those people.

Joshua 9:27

Joshua made the people of Gibeon become slaves of the people of Israel. They cut wood and carried water for the people of Israel and for the altar of the Lord—wherever the Lord chose it to be. Those people are still slaves today.