Translations
The leaders declared, "Let them live." And so they became woodcutters and water-carriers for the whole assembly, exactly as the leaders had decreed.
The nesi'im said to them, "Let them live." And so they became hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the edah, just as the nesi'im had spoken concerning them.
And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.

