Joshua 9:21
They continued, "Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation." So the leaders kept their promise.
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Deuteronomy 29:11
you children, wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water--

Joshua 9:20
This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them."

Joshua 9:23
Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God."

Joshua 9:27
On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day, for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.

Jeremiah 46:22
Egypt will hiss like a slithering snake, for the enemy will advance in force; with axes they will come against her like woodsmen cutting down trees.

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let them

Joshua 9:23, 27
Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God." . . .

Deuteronomy 29:11
you children, wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water--

2 Chronicles 2:17, 18
Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel, following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153, 600 in all. . . .

as the princes

Joshua 9:15
And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

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