44 Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you, from them you may buy a male or a female slave.

46 You may pass them on as an inheritance to your sons after you to inherit as a permanent possession. You may use them as workers, but you must not subject your Israelite brothers to cruel treatment.+

22 Joshua now called them and said to them: “Why did you trick us by saying, ‘We are from a place very far away from you,’ when you really live right among us?+

27 But that day Joshua made them gatherers of wood and drawers of water for the assembly+ and for Jehovah’s altar at the place that He should choose,+ and they remain so to this day.+