²³ Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for ever be our servants, cutting wood and getting water for the house of my God.

²⁷ And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.

²¹ Keep them living, and let them be servants, cutting wood and getting water for all the people. And all the people did as the chiefs had said to them.

²⁵ Cursed be Canaan; let him be a servant of servants to his brothers.

²⁶ And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.

²⁸ But nothing which a man has given completely to the Lord, out of all his property, of man or beast, or of the land which is his heritage, may be given away or got back in exchange for money; anything completely given is most holy to the Lord.

²⁹ Any man given completely to the Lord may not be got back: he is certainly to be put to death.