Then he said: "Cursed [be] Canaan; A servant of servants He shall be to his brethren."

And he said: "Blessed [be] the LORD, The God of Shem, And may Canaan be his servant.

' Nevertheless no devoted [offering] that a man may devote to the LORD of all that he has, [both] man and beast, or the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted [offering is] most holy to the LORD.

'No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, [but] shall surely be put to death.

And the rulers said to them, "Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, as the rulers had promised them."

And that day Joshua made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, in the place which He would choose, even to this day.