11 Wherefore our Elders, and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take vittles [a]with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: now therefore make ye a league with us.

12 This our [b]bread we took it hot with us for victuals out of our houses, the day we departed to come unto you: but now behold, it is dried, and it is molded.

13 Also these bottles of wine which we filled, were new, and lo, they be rent, and these our garments and our shoes are old, by reason of the exceeding great journey.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 9:11 Hebrew, in your hand.
  2. Joshua 9:12 The wicked lack no art, nor spare no lies to set forth their policy, when they will deceive the servants of God.

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