Joshua 9:23

Now, therefore, ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, they were never to cease being slaves, that was to be their social status in Israel forever, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God, reckoned among the lowest class of the people, Deuteronomy 29:10. Together with captives taken in war and devoted for like purposes to the Sanctuary, they bore, at a later period, the name Nethinim, 1 Chronicles 9:2; Nehemiah 7:43.