Joshua 9:23

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:11

your children, your women, and the aliens who are in your camp, both those who cut your wood and those who draw your water—

Joshua 9:21

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 decided concerning them.

Joshua 9:27

But on that day Joshua made them 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 that he should choose.