Joshua 9:21-23

Common English Bible

²¹ The leaders went on to say to them, “Let them live.” So they became woodcutters and water haulers for the whole community, exactly as the leaders had intended for them.

²² Joshua called for the Gibeonites and spoke to them: “Why have you deceived us by saying, ‘We live very far away from you,’ when actually you live among us? ²³ So now you are cursed. Some of you will always serve as woodcutters and water haulers for my God’s house.”