Because these are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; such a one shall not be sold as a [common] servant.

And whatever number of men servants and maid servants you shall have, you shall purchase male and female servants from the nations that are round about you.

And you shall distribute them to your children after you, and they shall be to you permanent possessions forever. But of your brothers the children of Israel, one shall not oppress his brother in labors.

And Joshua called them together and said to them, Why have you deceived me, saying, We live very far from you; whereas you are fellow countrymen of those who dwell among us?

And now you are cursed. There shall not fail of you a slave, or a woodcutter, or a water carrier to me and my God.

And in that day, Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers to the whole congregation, and for the altar of God. Therefore the inhabitants of Gibeon became woodcutters and water carriers for the altar of God to this day, even for the place which the Lord should choose.

And there was no city which Israel did not take; they took them all in war.

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts to go forth to war against Israel, that they might be utterly destroyed, that mercy should not be granted to them, but that they should be utterly destroyed, as the Lord said to Moses.

And Ephraim did not destroy the Canaanite who dwelt in Gezer; and the Canaanite dwelt in Ephraim to this day, until Pharaoh the king of Egypt went up and took it, and burned it with fire. And the Canaanites, and Perizzites, and the inhabitants in Gaza they destroyed, and Pharaoh gave them for a dowry to his daughter.

And it came to pass when Israel was strong, that he put the Canaanite under forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.

And Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kedron, nor the inhabitants of Domana: and the Canaanite dwelt in the midst of them, and became forced labor to them.

And Asher dwelt in the midst of the Canaanite who inhabited the land, for he could not drive him out.

And the Amorite drove out the children of Dan into the mountains, for they did not allow them to come down into the valley.

[This translation omits this verse.]

But of the children of Israel Solomon made nothing; for they were the warriors, and his servants and rulers, and captains of the third order, and the captains of his chariots, and his horsemen.

I was peaceable among them that hated peace; when I spoke to them, they warred against me without a cause.

But his citizens hated him, and sent a delegation after him, saying, 'We will not have this man to reign over us.'