²³ You are now under a curse:^(A) You will never be released from service as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

²⁸ When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.^(A)

³⁰ Neither did Zebulun drive out the Canaanites living in Kitron or Nahalol, so these Canaanites lived among them, but Zebulun did subject them to forced labor.

³³ Neither did Naphtali drive out those living in Beth Shemesh^(A) or Beth Anath^(B); but the Naphtalites too lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, and those living in Beth Shemesh and Beth Anath became forced laborers for them.

³⁵ And the Amorites were determined also to hold out in Mount Heres,^(A) Aijalon^(B) and Shaalbim,^(C) but when the power of the tribes of Joseph increased, they too were pressed into forced labor.