World English Bible
Joshua 9:5
“and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.”
Verse in context — Joshua 9
3
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
4
they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,
5
and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.
6
They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us.
7
The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among us. How could we make a covenant with you?
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Israel conquers and settles the Promised Land under Joshua’s leadership.
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