◄ Joshua 9:12 ►
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Good News Translation
Look at our bread. When we left home with it and started out to meet you, it was still warm. But look! Now it is dry and moldy.

New Revised Standard Version
Here is our bread; it was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey, on the day we set out to come to you, but now, see, it is dry and moldy;

Contemporary English Version
See this dry, crumbly bread of ours? It was hot out of the oven when we packed the food on the day we left our homes.

New American Bible
This bread of ours was still warm when we brought it from home as provisions the day we left to come to you, but now it is dry and crumbly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold, these loaves we took hot, when we set out from our houses to come to you, now they are become dry, and broken in pieces by being exceeding old.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold, these loaves we took hot, when we set out from our houses to come to you, now they are become dry, and broken in pieces by being exceeding old.

our bread

Joshua 9:4,5 Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again, . . .

Context
The Deceit of the Gibeonites
…11And our ancients, and all the inhabitants of our country, said to us: Take with you victuals for a long way, and go meet them, and say: We are your servants, make ye a league with us. 12Behold, these loaves we took hot, when we set out from our houses to come to you, now they are become dry, and broken in pieces by being exceeding old.13These bottles of wine when we filled them were new, now they are rent and burst. These garments we have on, and the shoes we have on our feet, by reason of the very long journey, are worn out, and almost consumed.…
Cross References
Joshua 9:5
And very old shoes, which for a show of age were clouted with patches, and old garments upon them: the loaves also, which they carried for provisions by the way, were hard, and broken into pieces:

Joshua 9:11
And our ancients, and all the inhabitants of our country, said to us: Take with you victuals for a long way, and go meet them, and say: We are your servants, make ye a league with us.

Joshua 9:13
These bottles of wine when we filled them were new, now they are rent and burst. These garments we have on, and the shoes we have on our feet, by reason of the very long journey, are worn out, and almost consumed.

Joshua 9:11
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