Joshua 9:21
“Thus, therefore, you also, if you have brought a word in praise of God, not new and fresh from the learning of the spirit, from the doctrine of God's grace, your mouth indeed offers "a sacrifice of praise," but your mind is accused on account of the sterility of yesterday's flesh. For the Lord did not delay and order…”
Source: Septuagint
21They shall live, and shall be hewers of wood and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the princes said to them.
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19And the princes said to all the congregation: We have sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel, and now we shall not be able to touch them.
20This we will do; take them alive, and we will preserve them: so there shall not be wrath against us by reason of the oath which we swore to them.
— Joshua 9:21 —
22And Joshua called them together and said to them, Why have ye deceived me, saying, We live very far from you; whereas ye are fellow countrymen of those who dwell among us?
23And now ye are cursed: there shall not fail of you a slave, or a hewer of wood, or a drawer of water to me and my God.