But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, {even} unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

And he said, Cursed {be} Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.

And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

Now therefore ye {are} cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. {none...: Heb. not be cut off from you}

All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, {were} three hundred ninety and two.

And they said unto Joshua, We {are} thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who {are} ye? and from whence come ye?

But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, {even} unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

Behold, as the eyes of servants {look} unto the hand of their masters, {and} as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes {wait} upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy {portion shall be} ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy {portion}; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.

And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring {it} into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as {it is} written in the law:

And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, {that} all the people {that is} found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.

But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee {for} an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth: