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 * cursed.
   This may refer to the original curse pronounced against the
   descendants of Canaan:  both of them seem to have implied
   nothing else than perpetual slavery.  The Gibeonites were
   brought, no doubt, under tribute; performed the meanest
   offices for the Israelites; being in the same condition as the
   servile class of Hindoos, called the {Chetrees;} had their
   national importance annihilated, and yet were never permitted
   to incorporate themselves with the Israelites.

 * See on
  Ge 9:25,26  Le 27:28,29 
 * none of you be freed.  Heb. not be cut off from you.  hewers.
   In the East, collecting wood for fuel, and carrying water, are
   the peculiar employment of females.  The Arab women of
   Barbary, and the daughters of the Turcomans, are thus
   employed.  Hence Mr. Harmer concludes, that the bitterness of
   the doom of the Gibeonites does not seem to have consisted in
   the labouriousness of the service enjoined them, but its
   disgracing them from the characteristic employment of men,
   that of bearing arms, and condemning them and their posterity
   for ever to the employment of females.

  21,27 

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