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What does Joshua 9:5 mean?
"and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy."
— Joshua 9:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and old, torn-up and bound up wine skins,
and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy.
They went to Joshua at 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.”
The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “What if you live among us? How could we make a covenant with you?”
They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” Joshua said to them, “Who are you? Where do you come from?”
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