Joshua 9:23 - Modern English Version

²³ Therefore now you are cursed, and you will always be slaves, cutting wood and carrying water for the house of my God.”

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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."

Joshua 9:23 Tagairtí Cros

Deuteronomy 29:11

your little ones, your wives, and your foreigners who are in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water —

Joshua 9:21

The leaders of the congregation also said to them, “Let them live!” So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation, as the leaders told them.

Joshua 9:27

That day he made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and the altar of the Lord, even to this day, at the place He would choose.