Joshua 9:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ But Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to continue to this day, in the place which he should choose.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ But Joshua then made them hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the place which He should choose.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Jehovah, unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

Common English Bible

²⁷ That day Joshua assigned them as woodcutters and water haulers for the community and for the LORD’s altar, located wherever God would choose. That is still the case today.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And he decreed on that day, that they would be in the ministry of all the people and of the altar of the Lord, cutting wood and carrying water, even until this present time, in the place which the Lord had chosen.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And he gave orders in that day that they should be in the service of all the people, and of the altar of the Lord, hewing wood and carrying water, until this present time, in the place which the Lord hath chosen.

Joshua 9:27 Cross References

2 Chronicles 2:16

and we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon, and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem.”

Numbers 31:28

And levy for the Lord a tribute from the men of war who went out to battle, one out of five hundred, of the persons and of the oxen and of the asses and of the flocks;

Numbers 31:30

And from the people of Israel's half you shall take one drawn out of every fifty, of the persons, of the oxen, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all the cattle, and give them to the Levites who have charge of the tabernacle of the Lord.”

Numbers 31:47

from the people of Israel's half Moses took one of every fifty, both of persons and of beasts, and gave them to the Levites who had charge of the tabernacle of the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then to the place which the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, thither you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, and all your votive offerings which you vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:14

but at the place which the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I am commanding you.

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you shall seek the place which the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there; thither you shall go,

Joshua 9:21

And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the leaders had said of them.

Joshua 9:26

So he did to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel; and they did not kill them.