Joshua 9:21 - New Revised Standard Version

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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And the leaders said to them, Let them live [and be our slaves]. So they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the assembly, just as the leaders had said of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And the princes said unto them, Let them live: so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the princes had spoken unto them.

Common English Bible

²¹ The leaders went on to say to them, “Let them live.” So they became woodcutters and water haulers for the whole community, exactly as the leaders had intended for them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ But though they live, let them serve the entire multitude by cutting wood and carrying water." And while they were discussing these things,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things,

Joshua 9:21 Mga Krus na Reperensya

Jeremiah 46:22

She makes a sound like a snake gliding away; for her enemies march in force, and come against her with axes, like those who fell trees.

Deuteronomy 29:10

You stand assembled today, all of you, before the Lord your God—the leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel,

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 10:1

When King Adoni-zedek of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

Joshua 9:15

And Joshua made peace with them, guaranteeing their lives by a treaty; and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

Joshua 9:20

This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that wrath may not come upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them.”

Joshua 9:23

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.”

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.