Strong's Hebrew English Morphology 6258 [e] וְעַתָּ֖ה wə-‘at-tāh Now therefore Conj-w | Adv 779 [e] אֲרוּרִ֣ים ’ă-rū-rîm [are] cursed V-Qal-QalPassPrtcpl-mp 859 [e] אַתֶּ֑ם ’at-tem; you Pro-2mp 3808 [e] וְלֹֽא־ wə-lō- and none Conj-w | Adv-NegPrt 3772 [e] יִכָּרֵ֨ת yik-kā-rêṯ shall be freed V-Nifal-Imperf-3ms 4480 [e] מִכֶּ֜ם mik-kem of you Prep | 2mp 5650 [e] עֶ֗בֶד ‘e-ḇeḏ, from being slaves N-ms 2404 [e] וְחֹטְבֵ֥י wə-ḥō-ṭə-ḇê and Conj-w | V-Qal-Prtcpl-mpc 6086 [e] עֵצִ֛ים ‘ê-ṣîm woodcutters N-mp 7579 [e] וְשֹֽׁאֲבֵי־ wə-šō-’ă-ḇê- and Conj-w | V-Qal-Prtcpl-mpc 4325 [e] מַ֖יִם ma-yim water carriers N-mp 1004 [e] לְבֵ֥ית lə-ḇêṯ for the house Prep-l | N-msc 430 [e] אֱלֹהָֽי׃ ’ĕ-lō-hāy. of my God N-mpc | 1cs

New American Standard Bible
"Now therefore, you are cursed, and you shall never cease being slaves, both hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God."

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore you are cursed and will always be slaves--woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God."

cursed This may refer to the original curse pronounced against the descendants of Canaan: both of them seem to have implied nothing else than perpetual slavery. The gibeonites were brought, no doubt, under tribute; performed the meanest offices for the israelites; being in the same condition as the servile class of the Hindoos, called the Chetrees; had their national importance annihilated, and yet were never permitted to incorporate themselves with the Israelites.

Genesis 9:25,26 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be …

Leviticus 27:28,29 Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote to the …

none of you be freed [heb] not be cut off from you
hewers In the East, collecting wood for fuel, and carrying water, are the peculiar employment of females. The Arab women of Barbary, and the daughters of the Turcomans, are thus employed. Hence Mr.Harmer concludes, that the bitterness of the doom of the Gibeonites does not seem to have consisted in the labouriousness of the service enjoined them, but its disgracing them from the characteristic employment of men, that of bearing arms, and condemning them and their posterity for ever to the employment of females.

Joshua 9:21,27 And the princes said to them, Let them live; but let them be hewers …

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