²³ May you be cursed! From now on you will always be servants who cut wood and carry water for the house of my God.”

²⁷ But that day he made the Gibeonites the woodcutters and water carriers for the community of Israel and for the altar of the Lord—wherever the Lord would choose to build it. And that is what they do to this day.

²¹ Let them live.” So they made them woodcutters and water carriers for the entire community, as the Israelite leaders directed.

²⁸ “However, anything specially set apart for the Lord—whether a person, an animal, or family property—must never be sold or bought back. Anything devoted in this way has been set apart as holy, and it belongs to the Lord. ²⁹ No person specially set apart for destruction may be bought back. Such a person must be put to death.

²⁵ Then he cursed Canaan, the son of Ham:

²⁶ Then Noah said,