Joshua 9:4 - New International Version (Anglicised)

⁴ they resorted to a ruse: they went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ they did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ They worked cunningly, and went pretending to be ambassadors and took [provisions and] old sacks on their donkeys and wineskins, old, torn, and mended,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,

Common English Bible

⁴ they acted cleverly. They set out pretending to be messengers. They took worn-out sacks for their donkeys and worn-out wineskins that were split and mended.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ planning cleverly, took for themselves provisions, placing old sacks upon their donkeys, and wineskins that had torn and been sewed up,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Cunningly devising, took for themselves provisions, laying old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again,

Joshua 9:4 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 34:13

Because their sister Dinah had been defiled, Jacob’s sons replied deceitfully as they spoke to Shechem and his father Hamor.

Psalm 119:83

Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your decrees.

Matthew 10:16

‘I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Matthew 9:17

Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out, and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.’

Mark 2:22

And no-one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins.’

Luke 16:8

‘The master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own kind than are the people of the light.

Joshua 9:12

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But now see how dry and mouldy it is.

Joshua 9:13

And these wineskins that we filled were new, but see how cracked they are. And our clothes and sandals are worn out by the very long journey.’

Joshua 9:3

However, when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

Joshua 9:5

They put worn and patched sandals on their feet and wore old clothes. All the bread of their food supply was dry and mouldy.