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Joshua 9:22-23

9:22 ¹Joshua summoned the Gibeonites² and said to them, “Why did you trick³ us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?⁴ 9:23 Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”⁵

Joshua 9:27

Context
9:27 and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)⁶

¹sn Verses 22-27 appear to elaborate on v. 21b.

²tn Heb “them.”

³tn Or “deceive.”

⁴tn Heb “live in our midst?”

⁵tn Heb “Now you are cursed and a servant will not be cut off from you, woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

⁶tn Heb “and Joshua made them in that day woodcutters and water carriers for the community, and for the altar of the Lord to this day at the place which he chooses.”

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