Discovery BoxJoshua 9:22-23 
Context9:22 1 Joshua summoned the Gibeonites 2 and said to them, “Why did you trick 3 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
Context9:27 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
1 sn Verses 22-27 appear to elaborate on v. 21b.
2 tn Heb “them.”
3 tn Or “deceive.”
4 tn Heb “live in our midst?”
5 tn 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.”
6 tn Heb “and Joshua made them in that day woodcutters and water carriers for the community, and for the altar of the
