²³ Now therefore, you are ^(A)cursed, and none of you shall be freed from being slaves—woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

²¹ And the rulers said to them, “Let them live, but let them be ^(A)woodcutters and water carriers for all the congregation, as the rulers had ^(B)promised them.”

²⁷ And that day Joshua made them ^(A)woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, ^(B)in the place which He would choose, even to this day.

^28 (A)‘Nevertheless no ^[a]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. ^29 (B)No person under the ban, who may become doomed to destruction among men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death.

²⁵ Then he said:

²⁶ And he said: