Joshua 9:23 - New International Version (Anglicised)

²³ You are now under a curse: you will never be released from service as woodcutters and water-carriers 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."

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 Tagairtí Cros

Deuteronomy 29:11

together with your children and your wives, and the foreigners living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.

Joshua 9:21

They continued, ‘Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water-carriers in the service of the whole assembly.’ So the leaders’ promise to them was kept.

Joshua 9:27

That day he made the Gibeonites woodcutters and water-carriers for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the Lord at the place the Lord would choose. And that is what they are to this day.