Joshua 9:23 Cross References - Thomson

²³ Now therefore you are cursed, and not one of you shall escape servitude; from being a hewer of wood, and a drawer of water, for me and my God.

²⁵ And when Noe recovered from the wine and knew what his younger son had done to him, ²⁶ he said, "Ah devoted Chanaan! "To his brethren he will be a domestic servant. Moreover he said, "Blessed be the Lord God of Sem: "And let Chanaan be his domestic servant."

²⁸ But with respect to every Anathema which a man may devote to the Lord from all that he hath, whether from man or beast, or from field of his possession, it shall not be sold nor redeemed. Every anathema shall be most sacredly devoted to the Lord. ²⁹ And every thing which hath been devoted as an anathema from among men, shall not be redeemable, but by death.

²¹ They shall live; but they shall be hewers of wood, and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the chiefs have said to them.

²⁷ And on that day Joshua made them hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the whole congregation, and for the altar of God. For this cause the inhabitants of Gabaon are hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the altar of God, even at this day, and are to be so for the place which the Lord will chuse.