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Now therefore you are cursed ,
and some of you shall always be slaves ,
hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God ."
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They answered Joshua , "
Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land ,
and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you ;
so we feared greatly for our lives because of you ,
and did this thing .
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And now ,
behold ,
we are in your hand :
do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us ."
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So he did to them ,
and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel ;
and they did not kill them .
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But Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD ,
to continue to this day ,
in the place which he should choose .