Joshua 9:23 Cross References - Geneva

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.

²⁵ And said, Cursed be Canaan: a seruant of seruants shall he be vnto his brethren. ²⁶ He said moreouer, blessed be the Lord God of Shem, and let Canaan be his seruant.

²⁸ Notwithstanding, nothing separate from the common vse that a man doeth separate vnto the Lord of all that he hath (whether it bee man or beast, or lande of his inheritance) may be solde nor redeemed: for euery thing separate from the common vse is most holy vnto the Lord. ²⁹ Nothing separate from the common vse, which shall be separate from man, shalbe redeemed, but dye the death.

²¹ And the Princes sayd vnto them againe, Let them liue, but they shall hewe wood, and drawe water vnto all the Congregation, as the Princes appoint them.

²⁷ And Ioshua appointed them that same day to be hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the Congregation, and for the altar of the Lord vnto this day, in the place which he should chuse.