23 Now therefore ye are accursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for [a]the house of my God.

24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was told thy servants, that the Lord thy God had (A)commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land out of your sight, therefore we were exceeding sore afraid for our lives at the presence of you, and have done this thing:

25 And behold now, we are in thine hand: do as it seemeth good and right in thine eyes to do unto us.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 9:23 For the uses of the Tabernacle and of the temple when it shall be built.

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