⁴⁶ The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, of Hasupha, of Tabbaoth,^(A)

⁴³ The temple servants: the descendants of Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth,^(A)

² Now the first to live again in their possessions in their towns were Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.^(A)

²³ Now, therefore, you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, woodcutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”^{(A) 24} They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land before you, so we were in great fear for our lives because of you and did this thing.^{(B) 25} And now we are in your hand: do as it seems good and right in your sight to do to us.”^{(C) 26} This is what he did for them: he saved them from the Israelites, and they did not kill them. ²⁷ But on that day Joshua made them woodcutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the Lord, to continue to this day, in the place that he should choose.^(D)

² “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When a person makes an explicit vow to the Lord concerning the equivalent for a human being, ³ the equivalent for a male shall be: from twenty to sixty years of age the equivalent shall be fifty shekels of silver by the sanctuary shekel.^{(A) 4} If the person is a female, the equivalent is thirty shekels. ⁵ If the age is from five to twenty years of age, the equivalent is twenty shekels for a male and ten shekels for a female. ⁶ If the age is from one month to five years, the equivalent for a male is five shekels of silver, and for a female the equivalent is three shekels of silver.^{(B) 7} And if the person is sixty years old or over, then the equivalent for a male is fifteen shekels and for a female ten shekels. ⁸ If any cannot afford the equivalent, they shall be brought before the priest and the priest shall assess them; the priest shall assess them according to what each one making a vow can afford.^(C)