Joshua 9:5
Good News Translation
They put on ragged clothes and worn-out sandals that had been mended. The bread they took with them was dry and moldy.

New Revised Standard Version
with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes; and all their provisions were dry and moldy.

Contemporary English Version
Their sandals were old and patched, and their clothes were worn out. They even took along some dry and crumbly bread.

New American Bible
They wore old, patched sandals and shabby garments; and all the bread they took was dry and crumbly.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

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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:

old shoes

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.

Deuteronomy 29:5 He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.

Deuteronomy 33:25 His shoe shall be iron and brass. As the days of thy youth, so also shall thy old age be.

Luke 15:22 And the father said to his servants: Bring forth quickly the first robe and put it on him: and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet.

Context
The Deceit of the Gibeonites
4Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again, 5And 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:6And they went to Joshua, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him, and to all Israel with him: We are come from a far country, desiring to make peace with you. And the children of Israel answered them, and said:…
Cross References
Joshua 9:4
Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again,

Joshua 9:6
And they went to Joshua, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him, and to all Israel with him: We are come from a far country, desiring to make peace with you. And the children of Israel answered them, and said:

Joshua 9:12
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.

Joshua 9:4
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